Re: Autopilot, a module for remotely doing things

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Brugnara Daniele <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think I've found the problem. I'm in virtualbox and no compatible cards
> are found. I'll try with a real pc with a real nic and I'll let you know my
> progress.

Are you on legacy BIOS? GRUB does not have hardware NIC drivers; it
relies on networking support provided by platform firmware. In case of
legacy BIOS the only network stack is PXE and it is available only
when grub was booted via PXE.

> Daniele.
>
> On Wed Dec 03 2014 at 9:03:05 PM Brugnara Daniele <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> Do I have to initialize the network or grub does it self? I suppose that
>> calling net_ls_cards something should be printed out but this is not true in
>> my case.
>> FOR_NET_CARDS macro doesn't output any cards.
>> In the source code, I've found that there is a function
>> grub_net_card_register and for what I have understood, this should be called
>> somewhere. I think that this is done by the modules: efinet, emunet, ofnet,
>> ubootnet and pxe. I'm trying to insmod-ding ofnet but with no fortune.
>> If I'm doing something stupid, please tell me. I don't want to waste your
>> time.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed Dec 03 2014 at 7:03:19 PM Alan Perry <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Dec 3, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Brugnara Daniele <address@hidden>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > source (http,http://192.168.1.70:1273)/
>>> > source (http:http://192.168.1.70:1273)/
>>> > source (http,192.168.1.70,1273)/
>>> > source (http:192.168.1.70:1273:/)
>>> > [...]
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> The syntax for a net device is (<protocol>, <server>).  <protocol> in
>>> your case would be 'http'.  <server> would be 192.168.1.170. The http module
>>> is hard-coded to use port 80.
>>>
>>> I am in the process of extending the syntax to allow the port to be
>>> specified (with syntax (<protocol>, <server>, <port>)). Working through a
>>> bug in my code.
>>>
>>> alan
>>>
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