r8169 PXE boot problems

[Sean Keating]

It quickly gets to the point that the right decision is to disable the
card on the motherboard and buy cards that are compatible with the rest
of the workstations.


On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 22:21 -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I have 18 PXE clients.  16 of them (with various ethernet cards) boot
> from a central server just fine.  Two have the Realtek 8169 cards (not
> my choice, built into the motherboard) that won't boot.  They start to
> boot, then after the kernel takes over they go eth0 down and stop.
> 
> Google suggests I'm not the only one with this problem, but I didn't
> find a clear solution.
> 
> I'm open to suggestions for how I might get past this snag.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> David A. Bandel
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