Hello Arnaud, can you check if ifopen also freezes if the network cable is disconnected?
I have also pushed some modifications to the 3c90x driver here: https://git.ipxe.org/people/meteger/ipxe.git/shortlog/refs/heads/3c90x One of the commits has a very slim chance of fixing your issue, I wouldn't hold my breath though. You can get it with: git clone git://git.ipxe.org/people/meteger/ipxe.git cd ipxe/src git checkout 3c90x Then build iPXE as usual. Thomas On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Arnaud Adamy <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. > The card works perfectly in Windows 98 SE, in Windows 2000 and with Debian > 7. > In the BIOS, the plug&play option is set to off, the mainboard an ISA > card, an AGP video card and some PCI cards too. > The PC needs to be used today, but there is another 3C905C-TX in a box, > I’ll try with it in another computer. And if it works, I’ll exchange the > two cards. > Maybe it is an IRQ or a bus problem. I’ll try to put the card in another > PCI location and test it again the late afternoon. > Moreover I’ve done tests again early this morning and it freeze every > time. I cannot explain why if worked the first time.... > I confirm the vendor is 10B7 and the device id is 9200 > > Arnaud > *From:* Thomas Miletich <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, August 19, 2013 12:08 PM > *To:* Arnaud Adamy <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE fail to execute dhcp on old system > > I just tried to reproduce the problem, but everything worked fine here. > I tested with a 3c905C, PCI ID 10B7:9200, the same as yours. > > Could you put the 3c90x card into another machine and see if iPXE freezes > in that machine too? Does the card work in Linux or Windows or whatever OS > you use? > > This should be valuable information in trying to track down the issue. > I'll also see if I can spot anything obvious in the driver code. > > Thomas > > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Arnaud Adamy <[email protected]>wrote: > >> What I wanted to say is if I don’t press Ctrl+B, the message to press >> it disappear and only the messages to the Features line remain. >> >> I just made the test again with the debug version I’ve build, and indeed, >> when I use ifopen or ifopen net0, it crach with the same messages as the >> debug for dhcp do. >> And I retested with the live CD and it freeze too. >> That’s strange... I’ve done hard reboot, stop and run again, but the fact >> is, now it crash every time with ifopen. >> >> I have done a memtest86 with 3 passes and 64% of the fourth and no errors >> detected. The machine is very stable and haven’t had any problem in the >> past. >> >> *From:* Thomas Miletich <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Saturday, August 17, 2013 8:48 PM >> *To:* Arnaud Adamy <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE fail to execute dhcp on old system >> >> Thanks for the log file. >> >> I'm quite puzzled by the output. You said you could open and close the >> interface manually, yet the log shows that it freezes in the open function. >> >> It seems to freeze right when we send the receive ring buffer address to >> the card. >> >> Can you get us another log, where you execute the following commands: >> ifopen net0 >> dhcp net0 >> >> Although there shouldn't be any difference, as dhcp calls open >> internally, I'd like to know why your manual ifopen didn't freeze. >> >> > For test purpose I’m using the live CD (1.0.0+ (c692a)) from your web >> site. It load SysLinux and iPXE and stop after the “Features:” sentence. >> Just the cursor blink forever. >> > When I enter the console with Crtl+B, I get: >> >> I'm not sure what you're saying here. iPXE freezes after the "Feature" >> line, but you can press CTRL+B to get to the iPXE prompt? iPXE should try >> to autoboot after the feature line. >> >> If it doesn't try to autoboot, please run memtest86+ or something similar >> on the machine and let it do a couple of passes, just to make sure we're >> not seeing any weird hardware issues. >> >> Thanks >> Thomas >> > >
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