GRUB 0.94 / Etherboot / 3C940 or e1000 ... some confusion

[Schlabach, Torsten]

Dear list,

I am somewhat new at least to the internals of GRUB and therefore have a hard 
time getting some issues sorted out.

What I am trying to achive is to have a new server boot from the network with 
GRUB that has two NICs:

- 3Com 3C940 (on board of the Asus A7V600 motherboard, Linux says 00:09.0 
Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 1000Base? (rev 12))
- Intel Gigabit (Linux says: 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM 
Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02))

I have downloaded GRUB 0.93 but neither card is supported. Therefore I did some 
searching on the mailing list and got even more confused. So I wonder:

- GRUB is using Etherboot's drivers. Etherboot has a driver for e1000 (which I 
believe is my Intel card). But someone reports that it is not just a matter of 
moving it in.
- Someone else writes that he compiles GRUB with --enable-e1000. I cannot find 
this option. I even checked out the CVS version, but could not find it.
- Someone else is posting a patch to GRUB 0.94. I can only find 0.93 in the 
CVS. Or is 0.94 == CVS HEAD? But then again, in the CVS head, no --enable-e1000.

Also I have a hard time believing that nobody ever had the problem to boot with 
GRUB through any of the recent and widely sold Gigabit Ethernet cards.

Can anyone point me to 0.94, let me know how to integrate the e1000 driver or 
give me any other useful hint?

Kind regards,
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Torsten Schlabach
+49 228 936 34735
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T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH
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