Broadcom BCM5901 NIC

David Härdeman
2003-09-27T23:19:14Z

Hi,

my new laptop (IBM Thinkpad G40) has an integrated NIC made by broadcom.
It's a BCM5901 card for which support was added in the tg3 driver a few
weeks ago (both in 2.4 and 2.6-test). However, the device doesn't work,
it insmods just fine and claims the hardware, but the machine never
responds to ping messages and the led indicating network activity is
never activated.

Broadcom has released a driver of their own (bcm5700) which works with
kernel 2.4.21. When I try that combination it works fine, however, the
bcm5700 driver wont work at all on recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernels.

Does anyone know what is wrong with the tg3 driver? Has anyone tried
using it on a 5901 card with success?

Regards,
David

relevant part of dmesg with 2.4.21 + bcm5700
--------------------------------------------
Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Driver bcm5700 with Broadcom NIC Extension
(NICE) ver. 6.2.17 (07/14/03)
eth0: Broadcom BCM5901 100Base-TX found at mem d0200000, IRQ 11, node
addr 00061bc20348
eth0: Broadcom BCM5705 Integrated Copper transceiver found
eth0: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx Checksum ON, Rx Checksum ON,
802.1Q VLAN ON, NAPI ON

lspci -vvv with 2.4.21 + bcm5700
--------------------------------
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 170d
(rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0545
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV-
VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (16000ns min), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at d0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-
Address: 020108086c0e6458 Data: 4002

ifconfig with 2.4.21 + bcm5700
------------------------------
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:1B:C2:03:48
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:627 (627.0 b) TX bytes:1090 (1.0 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Memory:d0200000-d0210000

dmesg on 2.6.0-test5 + tg3
--------------------------
tg3.c:v2.2 (August 24, 2003) eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95901A50) rev 3001
PHY(5705)] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:06:1b:c2:03:48

lspci -vvv on 2.6.0-test5 + tg3
-------------------------------
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 170d
(rev 01) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0545
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <T
Abort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (16000ns min), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at d0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [58]
Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-
Address: 020108086c0e6458 Data: 4002

ifconfig on 2.6.0-test5 + tg3
-----------------------------
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:1B:C2:03:48
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::206:1bff:fec2:348/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11