[OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone?

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 25/04/11 16:12, Nick Couchman wrote:

> I'll go back through and try to reproduce the issues and document how I
> worked around it.

That's great :)

>> Okay - I missed this as when I was stepping through the installer I
>> didn't bother with any of the networking stuff. However there is
>> definitely a bug here - running tcpdump on the bridge interface shows
>> data packets with junk in them rather than a proper DHCP request, so I'm
>> wondering if OpenBIOS doesn't initialise something in the NIC correctly?
>> Or maybe it's another alignment issue with the the LANCE buffers?
>>
>> Anyway, I'll take a look but it may take me a little time to figure out
>> what's going on.
>
> Let me know if I can provide any further information.  Sounds like
> you've reproduced the issue, but if I can provide any additional help,
> I'm happy to do so.

Okay - I now have a patch which appears to solve the issue here after 
numerous of hours debugging. I'll clean it up and post it to the list in 
a few minutes for you to test.


ATB,

Mark.

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