Hello,
I am using GNU GRUB 0.96 from CVS with network support for almost 1 month with eepro100 and rtl8139 network cards.
So far, it has worked almost flawlessly on 4 different computers.
Knowing that I would add other computers to this setup, I compiled grub with the following network cards support:
--enable-eepro100 --enable-rtl8139 --enable-sis900
Today, I tried to network boot a computer using an Elitegroup motherboard with an intergrated sis900 network adapter (10/100 ethernet).
After the bootp command, GRUB fails to get the DHCP signal and displays the following:
Found SIS900 at 0xe800, ROM address 0x0000 Probing...[SIS900] sis900_probe: MAC addr --:--:--:--:--:-- at ioaddr 0XE800 sis900_probe: Vendor:0x1039 Device:0x0900 sis900_probe: AMD 79C901 10BASE-T PHY transceiver found at address 1. sis900_probe: Using AMD 79C901 10BASE-T PHY as default sis900_read_mode: Media Link On 100mbps half-duplex Searching for server (DHCP)... sis900_transmit: TX Timeout! Tx status 8000024E. sis900_transmit: TX Timeout! Tx status 8000024E. sis900_transmit: TX Timeout! Tx status 8000024E. sis900_transmit: TX Timeout! Tx status 8000024E. sis900_transmit: TX Timeout! Tx status 8000024E.
I found on the etherboot mailing list a user having the same problem as mine:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04913.html
It looks like the problem has been fixed since etherboot 5.1
As I looked in the source files of GRUB, I found that the sis900 driver was taken from etherboot 4.7 as said in the netboot/sis900.txt file.
Would it be possible to upgrade this driver into the GRUB source tree to fix my (very) annoying problem?
Thanks in advance.
Matthias Bertschy, Echo Technologies SA
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