Re: BUG in 2.6.22-rc2-mm1: NIC module b44.c broken (Broadcom 4400)

[Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>]

Am Freitag, 25. Mai 2007 20:48 schrieben Sie:
> On Fri, 25 May 2007 17:59:29 +0200, Uwe Bugla wrote:
> > Perhaps someone reading this could try to reproduce that problem on his
> > machine.
> > Now who of the readers owes a Broadcom 4401 NIC and can please try to
> > test kernel 2.6.22-rc2-mm1?
> >
> > Those NICs have been used very very often as onboard controllers,
> > especially on ASUS boards.
>
> I've been using 2.6.22-rc2 for some time and now I compiled 2.6.22-rc2-
> mm1 and both work fine with the BCM4401 in my laptop.
>
> Maxi

Hello Maxi,

That may be true for your Laptop, but it unfortunately isn't true for my ASUS 
mainboard onboard controller.

Unfortunately I cannot confirm this:

My broadcom 4401 driver is not part of a notebook, but instead part of an ASUS 
P4PE mainboard.

At my second attempt I went the conventional path (i. e. ignoring the fact 
that
"Broadcom 4400 ethernet support appears twice in section "Network device 
support":

Whether you leave out "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers" or not it 
simply appears twice in kernel config! This is bug number 1.

Conventional path means:

EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers Y

Broadcom 4400 ethernet support m

Broadcom 4400 PCI device support Y

This configuration binds:

Sonics Silicon Backplane Support m

Support for SSB on PCI-bus host

SSB PCI core driver

This time I do get a "good" interrupt: IRQ 21 for the the device.

BUT:

Trying to ping another machine fails saying:

"destination host unreachable"


That means, Although the interrupt is fine now, the device is still not 
functionable.

This is bug number 2.

Cheers

Uwe

P. S.: Michael, Andrew, if you need additional information to resolve that 
issue please tell / ask me.