Surface Pro 4 won't get to registration menu

[sarge_212]

@george1421 Make and model of network adapter is a Linksys 200M ver 2 USB to ethernet adapter.(just like this one: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1030257) How do I tell where I’m pulling the IP address from? I believe it is from the fog client OS. This is booting off the fog debug USB stick I’ve made earlier.

[george1421]

@sarge_212 when you boot off that usb stick, you will see a screen with a bunch of text. Press enter a few times until you get to a command prompt. Then key in ip addr show It should list the loopback adapter and eth0. If eth0 has an IP address appropriate for you network then the fog live boot OS (still searching for the best name) will work no problem on that device.

The next issue we need to manage is the hand off from ipxe (not a fog project product) to the fog live boot kernel you just proved boots on your device.

[sarge_212]

@george1421 ip addr show indicates the following:

1: lo loopback
2: eth0 <NO-CARRIER, BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> but doesn’t indicate an IP
3: eth1 gives information that I would think would be on eth0, such as an IP address on my network

So according to this and your response, I think the fog live boot OS (FLOS fog-live-oS, good name?) will work. So, where do we go from here?

[george1421]

@sarge_212 OK you are seeing two ethernet adapters, I will assume eth0 is the built in wireless adapter and eth1 is the add on adapter. So the FLOS (its growing on me) image is viable.

So now you have the same issue is another poster, the handoff between ipxe (not a fog project product) and the flos kernel is not happening correctly. Let me try something in my lab, I want to see if I can update/the ipxe kernel to get this handoff to work. You are still using FOG 1.2.0 (stable) right?

[sarge_212]

@george1421 Yep 1.2.0 stable with some mods though, eg playing with kernels and the like and I’ve pulled the /tftpboot directory from a recent trunk version but I don’t know how much of an effect that will have. At this point it all seems to be working normally, eg still imaging other hardware without issue.

[Sebastian Roth]

@george1421 said:

I will assume eth0 is the built in wireless adapter and eth1 is the add on adapter.

I don’t think this is the case as Tom does not add wireless drivers to the kernel AFAIK. So it’s a really good question what eth0 is. Can you please boot again and run the following commands:

ls -al /sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver/ | grep module
...
ls -al /sys/class/net/eth1/device/driver/ | grep module
...

This should at least show us which drivers are used for those devices and hopefully we then understand which is which.

[sarge_212]

@Sebastian-Roth do this in the FLOS usb? (the one debug Fog Live OS I created?)

[Tom Elliott]

@sarge_212 Maybe we could call it FLOGGER?

[george1421]

@sarge_212 Yes that command is a linux command so you need to boot into flos (flogger) and get to the command prompt. Then run the ls command that will display all files in that location and then just filter out the ones that have module

[Sebastian Roth]

@sarge_212 said:

do this in the FLOS usb? (the one debug Fog Live OS I created?)

Yes I’d say so.

[sarge_212]

@Sebastian-Roth I like flos better, no offense @Tom-Elliott. I’ll boot into that and get you all the output of those 2 commands. may come in cell phone selfie form, but hey, that’s okay, right?

[Sebastian Roth]

Yes, whichever you like. Picture is great because we see exactly what you have on screen!

[Tom Elliott]

@sarge_212 Aww man,

I was just thinking of a way to phrase it as an acronym and all.

Free Live Opensource Ghost/Ghosting environment replacement.

[sarge_212]

@Tom-Elliott That is a better one. FLOGGER it is, Tom.

[sarge_212]

So, I think part of the problem is the surface doesn’t have hard wire ethernet, be nice if it did. I’m using a surface dock. Here is what I’m seeing (using the ethernet adapter on the dock, because I can’t use the usb 2.0 network-ethernet adapter on the surface because the usb FLOGGER is in that port) oh surface woes.

anyhow, I’m going to try and find a usb hub to plug them all in to the one single port on the surface. Anything else I can check while in the Flogger OS?

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott said:

@sarge_212 Aww man,

I was just thinking of a way to phrase it as an acronym and all.

Free Live Opensource Ghost/Ghosting environment replacement.

I’m still partial to fog-too

[sarge_212]

Okay. Here is something else. I have the ethernet cable in the surface dock. I put the ipxe usb boot only, eg only thing on flash drive is /efi/boot/bootx64.efi into the single usb port and booted. Was able to get to a registration menu. Keyboard didn’t work, but surface touch did. Arrowed down to perform full host registration and inventory and received the following:

This is using the kernel with FOG 1.2.0, I believe 3.19.8 but I can check that if needed.

[Sebastian Roth]

So now we are back to eth0 only (driver seams to be r8152). But what was the other eth device just some hours ago?? Where is it gone. Maybe because you changed back to an older kernel? Sorry man but I think you’ve lost me here. Not really sure what devices (dock, USB NIC) you have and kernels you switch forth and back.

[sarge_212]

@Sebastian-Roth The other eth device some hours ago was the USB 2.0 usb-ethernet adapter I was using. This helped us some how in the testing but I can’t remember how. I did go back to an older kernel. Here is the current config:

Surface Dock (ethernet cable plugged into that)
Older kernel
USB booting of flogger os in usb port ON surface

I can test a variety of other configs, I can’t remember what we were doing yesterday with the ethernet-usb adapter though…

[sarge_212]

Just playing with the Flogger os, and looking around at things. When I’m connected to the surface dock using the ethernet cable, I get this before the fog prompt:

r8152 2-2.2:1.0 eth0: v 1.08.2

I don’t know if that helps at all?