[Unattended] linux-boot Marvel Yukon GbE NIC

[Christian Schaffer]

Dear list, I use unattended pretty successfully, booting various types of PC using the Linux version of the boot-CD on an USB memory key. I really do like the linux-boot option, because we use assigning ComputerName based on DNS hostname - an option that unfortunately doesn´t work with dos-boot. Recently, we got a few new machines, equipped with Intel Desktop Board D915GUX. There is a NIC on board which identifies as Marvel Yukon GbE. Unfortunately, the linux boot won´t recognize the NIC. As soon as the boot process wants to discover a DHCP lease, it says eth0 not found and drops to shell. I tried several options (use linux boot CD, use PXE-boot (linux version), use 4.7pre version of linuxboot, various BIOS settings concerning APM, ACPI), but none of them succeeded. Since the NIC is being activated using the dos-boot option (undis3c), might I be right in thinking that this is a linux kernel problem? Is there any way to update the linux-boot CD to recognize the Marvel Yukon NIC? Thanks in advance, Christian