Finding the list of NIC names

Finding the list of NIC names

[Ted Dennison]

I'm trying to build GRUB (1.94) for loading a diskless system that has 
Intel E1000-series NICs. The instructions I have say that I can get a 
list of supported NICs by doing a:

    ./configure --help

I do get a lot of output from that command, but no list of NIC's that I 
can see. I tried it on both a cygwin system and on AIX, with the same 
result.

I tried looking through the sources too, but couldn't find anything 
enlightening. What am I missing?

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Re: Finding the list of NIC names

[Gerardo Richarte]

Marco Gerards wrote:
> Ted Dennison <dennison@ssd.fsi.com> writes:
>   
>> I tried looking through the sources too, but couldn't find anything
>> enlightening. What am I missing?
>>     
>
> GRUB 2 does not have networking support yet.  Better use GRUB Legacy.
>   
    To check if your card is supported in GRUB Legacy, check
grub-0.97/netboot (for example). There in the file config.c you'll find
lots of strings describing the different supported netcards. However,
your e1000 is not supported (although e100 is... are they compatible? I
don't think so. If they are you'll need to hack the PCI identification
values).

    gera

Re: Finding the list of NIC names

[Marco Gerards]

Ted Dennison <dennison@ssd.fsi.com> writes:

> I'm trying to build GRUB (1.94) for loading a diskless system that has
> Intel E1000-series NICs. The instructions I have say that I can get a
> list of supported NICs by doing a:
>
>    ./configure --help
>
> I do get a lot of output from that command, but no list of NIC's that
> I can see. I tried it on both a cygwin system and on AIX, with the
> same result.
>
> I tried looking through the sources too, but couldn't find anything
> enlightening. What am I missing?

GRUB 2 does not have networking support yet.  Better use GRUB Legacy.

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Marco

Re: Finding the list of NIC names

[Ted Dennison]

Gerardo Richarte wrote:
> Marco Gerards wrote:
>   
>> Ted Dennison <dennison@ssd.fsi.com> writes:
>>   
>>     
>>> I tried looking through the sources too, but couldn't find anything
>>> enlightening. What am I missing?
>>>     
>>>       
>> GRUB 2 does not have networking support yet.  Better use GRUB Legacy.
>>     
Ah. That explains it.

> lots of strings describing the different supported netcards. However,
> your e1000 is not supported (although e100 is... are they compatible? I
> don't think so. If they are you'll need to hack the PCI identification
> values).
>   
I don't think so either. I did a search on the Intel site, and those 
cards have been discontinued for over 8 years now.

E1000 (aka Intel 8254X - series) is the interface that comes on pretty 
much every Intel-based motherboard's built-in NIC for at least the last 
3 years or so. Probably 8 years, since the last series was discontinued.

Anyway, thanks for the (apparently off-topic) help.

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Re: Finding the list of NIC names

[Michael Hordijk]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> E1000 (aka Intel 8254X - series) is the interface that comes on pretty 
> much every Intel-based motherboard's built-in NIC for at least the last 
> 3 years or so. Probably 8 years, since the last series was discontinued.

OK, so I've taken the original grub-diskless patch (originally targeted at 0.95, 
which can be found in the GRUB bug tracker) and applied it to 0.97.  I've had 
success using the e1000 driver.  However, I actually use the UNDI driver with 
the e1000's I have since I need to support both Intel and Broadcom NICs in a PXE 
boot environment.

If there's interest, I can post said patch to the list, or I can just email the 
people who have expressed interest directly.

- michael

Re: Finding the list of NIC names

[Gerardo Richarte]

> OK, so I've taken the original grub-diskless patch (originally 
> targeted at 0.95, which can be found in the GRUB bug tracker) and 
> applied it to 0.97.  I've had success using the e1000 driver.  
> However, I actually use the UNDI driver with the e1000's I have since 
> I need to support both Intel and Broadcom NICs in a PXE boot environment.
>
> If there's interest, I can post said patch to the list, or I can just 
> email the people who have expressed interest directly.


I am interested, please send! I don't really need to compile them, but 
I'd love to see the source code for both drivers at least.

    thanks!
    gera