On Tuesday 22 June 2004 05:08, Feng Shuo wrote: > Some tg3 cards are very slow in dhcp (maybe it's a bug in driver), > and someone reported that it didn't work right in the environment > with more than one dhcp servers. ---- I don't know how to fix them > now, for these codes are just the same as Etherboot :-( ---- I call > them two as 'dhcp probe bug' :-)
Ok. It sounds not very important. > There are also problems in PCI PnP mechanic of diskless patch on some > blade servers and IBM R series notebooks. They have buggy PCI BOIS > which may lead grub to probe the NIC as a Realtek 8139 :-(. That > always drive me crazy for GRUB is not an OS and dose not have such > complex PnP support to fix that error ---- it just hang up :-(. When you don't compile the rtl8139 driver, what happens? Does it work flawlessly? > And, there are also a lot of compiling warnings, which are caused by > the different compiling parameter between GRUB and Etherboot. I'll > fix them with the VMWare bug :-) Probably they are ignorable. > Now I have four types of cards: 3c90x/rtl8139/eepro100/e1000, every > patch will be tested on each of the four cards before release. I am > sure that at least these four drivers work in any patch. Thank you for your information. Now I'm convinced that I should apply your patch as soon as possible. :) I hope I will have some time for your patch in this weekend. Okuji _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
