Environment
Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management Support Pack 1 - ZDM7 SP1 Imaging
Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management Support Pack 1 - ZDM7 SP1 PreBoot Services (PXE)Situation
The HP 7800p Ultra-slim Desktop's NIC does not initialize during the Linux boot while attempting to attach to the Imaging server.
The DELL E6400 e1000e NIC does not initialize during the Linux boot while attempting to attach to the Imaging server.
The DELL E6500 e1000e NIC does not initialize during the Linux boot while attempting to attach to the Imaging server.
The IBM Lenovo T400 e1000e NIC does not initialize during the Linux boot while attempting to attach to the Imaging server.
The e1000e NIC does not initialize during manual imaging (bootcd.iso).
The e1000e NIC does not initialize during the Linux boot while attempting to attach to the Imaging server.
Resolution
This is fixed in version 10.1.1 - see KB 7001406 "ZENworks 10 Configuration Management 10.1.1" which can be found at Novell Support
For ZDML7: To obtain access to a hot patch with the fix for this problem, follow the instructions in KB 3469853 "Updates to Novell ZENworks 7.2 Linux Management" which can be found at Novell Support
Additional Information
For the machines with the values 0x8086, 0x10f5, and e1000e, the workaround is to use KB 3421576 'How to get ZENworks imaging to automatically recognize new NICs' to manually add the string: newid="0x8086 0x10f5,e1000e" using the latest bootcd.iso from Novell Downloads.
The same process can be used for device IDs / device strings:
newid="0x8086 0x1049,e1000e"
newid="0x8086 0x1049,e1000" .
The same process can be used for device IDs / device strings:
newid="0x8086 0x1049,e1000e"
newid="0x8086 0x1049,e1000" .
