Re: [Linux-ia64] NIC not working after ACPI PXE boot - solution!

[Michael Madore <mmadore@turbolinux.com>]

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Hi,

I have thrown together a quick and dirty efi application to shutdown any
network adapters which are not already in a stopped state.  The source code
and Makefile are attached.  We intend to add the workaround as a patch to
our lilo package as well.

-- 
Mike Madore
Software Engineer
TurboLinux, Inc.

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:02:19AM -0600, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
> Some engineers here at Dell have developed a solution to the issue where the
> on-board NIC is unresponsive to Linux if first EFI tried to use it.  We're
> working through the licensing issues to make the code GPL, but until then, I
> can provide a simple functional description, and if someone wished to write
> code and add it to the kernel, great! :)
> 
> The basic steps are:
> use BS->LocateHandle(SimpleNetworkProtocol) to get the number of NICs in the
> system.
> for each handle returned:
> 	use BS->HandleProtocol() get EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK->Mode->State.
> 	if State != shutdown
> 		call EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK->Shutdown() on the NIC
> 		call EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK->Stop() on the NIC
> 
> This obviously needs to be done prior to loading network drivers, either in
> the kernel or in eli/lilo.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt Domsch
> Dell Enterprise Systems Group
> Linux Development Team
> 
> 
> 
> 
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