Network Boot Disk - Marvell Yukon 88E8042
Updated: 21 Jul 2010 | 4 comments
I recently bought some HP Compaq 6730s Notebooks and most unlike HP they have got a not very well known make of NIC in them:
Marvell Yukon 88E8042 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller.
I'd rather have had an Intel, Broadcom or Realtek but that's life!
I've built a Network Boot Disk including a Microsoft NDIS2 DOS Driver (downloaded from Marvell's Website) so that I can clone the laptops. However, near the end of the boot sequence it just stops and doesn't proceed any further, I think it's just after it has sought to grab a DHCP address.
I was wondering if it's a particularly poor DOS driver. Has anyone else come across this or got any tips how I can get it to complete and map the drive to the Altiris server share?
Thanks in advance,
Glen
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Does a driver for this nic device show up in the boot disk creator, on the drivers page? Have you selected that driver so that it is included in your DOS boot image?
Although you can look at the text description of the driver, it might be best to have the vendor and device id for the nic device, and make sure that the there is a driver on the list for that specific vendor/device id.
Does anyone have the .ko drivers to make this work in Linux? I opened a case with Altiris to hopefully have them compiled, but I thought maybe someone here has already done this.
Mine is actually Marvell yukon 88E8072 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet
PCI\VEN_11AB&DEV_436C&SUBSYS_30E9103C&REV_00
The built-in bootdisk creator driver for Marvell yukon 11AB didn't do anything. I still recieve CIFS VFS errors while PXE booting...
mount error 101 = Network is unreachable
Thanks.
EDIT:
For DOS drivers you can try the Marvell site as well as the Altiris FTP ftp://support.altiris............s/
This is not good, alot o the
This is not good, alot o the newer HP notebooks we are looking at now have the Marvell built in NIC and we have not been able to find a Linux driver for this to work in Altiris.
Yeah, we had to switch to
Yeah, we had to switch to WinPE. The newer versions of DS may support this by now though.
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