On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 18:01, Dustin Eward <emptythemagaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dell Dimension E521? On the US support site, I see 1.1.11 (released >> on 2007-09-04) is the latest. I don't see anything in the notes for >> this machine but sometimes they update the PXE code without any notes. > > I am using the version, the PXE in it is 100% fail. > >> > left the "Phoenix BIOS" boot-up identifier. It shows for only a split >> > second, but I could probably figure out the REAL motherboard MFR and >> > part/model number if I rebooted a lot... I'll have to get back to you >> > because I can't do that right this moment. >> >> I've seen a few systems in the last 2+ years that do this (showing >> signs of the underlying BIOS) but not many. > > Yeah, and DELL missing that one... They usually go out of their way to > hide/cripple everything. It was one of their rare AMD machines from a few > years ago, I'm guessing they just weren't putting much effort into it. > >> > experiment, but I got impatient. >> >> From what I've seen, I have the impression that Intel has generally >> been very good for both PXE and Linux. > > I got that impression, so I spent the money instead of continuing to hammer > on this embedded BCM4401. The gPXE b44 .usb image off of ROM-o-Matic doesn't > even recognize it. Neitehr do the UNDI/UNDIONLY. But, the 'all drivers' > loads the UNDI and it pulls DHCP....... Meh, bought the Intel cards.
I have a Dell laptop with a BCM4401 LoM (14e4:170c 1028:0188). It's an Inspiron 6000 with an Intel Pentium M running BIOS A09 (2005-09-28; latest). This machine appears to be fine with a PXE boot (at least with PXELINUX). This is the versioning information I was looking for off of yours: Broadcom UNDI, PE-2.1 (build 082) v2.0.4 Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Broadcom Corporation Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation All rights reserved. Intel Base-Code, PXE-2.1 (build 082j) Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation -- -Gene _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list gPXE@etherboot.org http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
