Acer Aspire E 11 ( ES1-111M-P2YU )

[Wayne Workman]

You enter into the firmware of this laptop by holding down the F2 key right after you turn on the laptop.

Network booting comes disabled by default.
F12 Boot Menu comes disabled by default.
Wake on LAN comes disabled by default.

It supports UEFI booting and Legacy booting.

In UEFI mode, without a supervisor password set, you cannot change any of the Secure Boot settings whatsoever.

After setting a supervisor password, you can choose to allow some pre-loaded .efi files.

You can turn off secure boot in the firmware’s boot menu tab.

You can, however, leave Secure Boot turned on and add ipxe.efi to the trusted UEFI file list. Here are directions:

• Format a USB Flash drive with fat32 file system.
• Copy ipxe.efi to the flash drive.
• Plug flash drive into laptop - no reboot required.
• In the Firmware ( hold F2 during power on ), go to the Security tab.
• If a supervisor password is not set yet, set one.
• Go to “Select an UEFI file as trusted for executing”
• Choose “USB0”
• Pick ipxe.efi
• Give the file a description (I used ipxeEfi ).
• Press enter once, then select [Yes]

[Wayne Workman]

Minor issue, the inits are not detecting the wired MAC on this device correctly.

When I tried a full register, I got an “Invalid MAC” error.

So I went to the compatibility menu and snooped around, here is what I have:

It seems like it’s a parsing issue. @Developers

[Wayne Workman]

Possible related issue: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6485/attempting-to-register-invalid-mac-address-after-upgrade-to-svn5972

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott how about a secondary function for getting the MAC if the primary function fails?

I’ll work on this…

[nbuursma]

I’m getting this too… part of trying to get another issue fixed I re-installed from trunk and now I’m dead in the water.

I can’t register any host - invalid mac.

Should I downgrade? How do I do that?

[Wayne Workman]

@nbuursma Actually, Tom says it might be fixed now. I just haven’t tried yet, got caught up with something. Try to update.

[nbuursma]

@Wayne-Workman said:

@nbuursma Actually, Tom says it might be fixed now. I just haven’t tried yet, got caught up with something. Try to update.

Will do!

[nbuursma]

@Wayne-Workman said:

@nbuursma Actually, Tom says it might be fixed now. I just haven’t tried yet, got caught up with something. Try to update.

Not fixed… still getting “Invalid Mac Address” when registering host.

[GFm]

@Wayne-Workman

Tried updating via

svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk

and it checks out and installs 5972. Is there a different way I should get the latest update? That was the one I was still on?

Thanks!!

[Wayne Workman]

@GFm said:

Is there a different way I should get the latest update?

There are several ways, but the one you did is valid. you could shorten that line by just typing svn up at that step to pull the latest.

[GFm]

Cool thanks… I’ll give it a try!

[nbuursma]

@GFm said:

Cool thanks… I’ll give it a try!

I just updated and go the same thing.

[GFm]

@Wayne-Workman

Tried that still says Version: 5972 in fog… it said checked out rev 4653

[Wayne Workman]

@GFm @nbuursma Please be patient - the Devs and I will look more closely at this over the weekend.

[GFm]

@Wayne-Workman
Thanks a lot!

[Tom Elliott]

@GFm I hope this is all fixed now if you are willing to up and test.

[GFm]

@Tom-Elliott I will try on Tuesday… Thanks for updating it so quickly!

[GFm]

Updating to the latest SVN fixed my problems… thanks!!
@Wayne-Workman @Tom-Elliott

[Wayne Workman]

The below MAC address detection issue is resolved as of svn 4678 cloud 6020

[Wayne Workman]

Fog settings so far for this device:

Boot file: ipxe.efi
Host EFI Exit Type: REFINED_EFI