epatec boot pxe problem

[roland]

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:35:25 +0200, Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 00:27 +0200, roland wrote:
>> On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:42:11 +0200, Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 23:06 +0200, roland wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I have bought Epatecs workstations 3800 and connected them to an
>> >> installation of K12Ltsp-fedora.
>> >> While booting with PXE I get the message
>> >>
>> >> usv-b-uhci c:V1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
>> >> ehci_hcd 00:103: VIA Technologies, Inc USB 2.0
>> >>
>> >> And booting stops.
>> >>
>> >> Does anybody knows what is going on. On the same port an Epatec 2300
>> >> works
>> >> fine.
>> > Looks like it's trying to boot from the hard drive or USB rather than
>> > the network.  Make sure the BIOS tries to boot PXE first.
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer             rstevens at internap.com -
>> Hi Rick,
>>
>> The workstation locks after normal pxe booting. I mean it is listing the
>> normal boot lines until arrival at the point of the USB test.
>>
>> I connected the keyboard and mouse on the USB-ports. When I disconnect  
>> the
>> keyboard and mouse, the workstation boots normal.
>> The difference between a model 3800 and 2300 is respectively USB 2.0 and
>> USB 1.0.
>>
>> So, could it be the USB 2.0?
>
> It could be.  I had an issue with USB (ehci driver) with one of the
> kernels (I think it was 2.6.20-1.2925), but the upgrade to .2933 seems
> to have solved it.
>
> Should I upgrade the kernel or a driver or something else? Just want to  
> be sure. If it this doesn't work today I will exchange it or perhaps use  
> Nomachine-NX. I am going tomorrow to Berlin where I bought it. I can't  
> lose any time anymore, because I lost already 2 weeks on the Siemens  
> server, which had a BIOS problem.

Thanks
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