re add support for bcm5750

re add support for bcm5750

[Florian Mickler]

Hi,

in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42132 Francesco wrote: 

> I have a notebook (HP TC4400) which has a BCM5750 ethernet card inside. The
> ouput of lspci is:
> 
> 08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5750M
> Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:167c]
> 
> Commit 67b284d476bcb3d100e946da23d6cf9acfd0465c removed the support for this
> device. I wish to have the support for this network card back again. Thanks!

Regards,
Flo

Re: re add support for bcm5750

[Matt Carlson]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:03:43AM -0700, Florian Mickler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42132 Francesco wrote: 
> 
> > I have a notebook (HP TC4400) which has a BCM5750 ethernet card inside. The
> > ouput of lspci is:
> > 
> > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5750M
> > Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:167c]
> > 
> > Commit 67b284d476bcb3d100e946da23d6cf9acfd0465c removed the support for this
> > device. I wish to have the support for this network card back again. Thanks!

Hi Florian.  Are you experiencing the same problem?  We found that
Francesco's problem was that the firmware of his device was missing.  Do
you see :

eth0: No firmware running

messages?

Re: re add support for bcm5750

[Florian Mickler]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:25:15 -0700
"Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:03:43AM -0700, Florian Mickler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42132 Francesco wrote: 
> > 
> > > I have a notebook (HP TC4400) which has a BCM5750 ethernet card inside. The
> > > ouput of lspci is:
> > > 
> > > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5750M
> > > Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:167c]
> > > 
> > > Commit 67b284d476bcb3d100e946da23d6cf9acfd0465c removed the support for this
> > > device. I wish to have the support for this network card back again. Thanks!
> 
> Hi Florian.  Are you experiencing the same problem?  We found that
> Francesco's problem was that the firmware of his device was missing.  Do
> you see :
> 
> eth0: No firmware running
> 
> messages?
> 

Hi Matt!
No, I was just browsing the regression list and found this entry but
couldn't associate any action with it. 

This clears that up, thanks for the information and I will close this
bug. 

Regards,
Flo

Re: re add support for bcm5750

[Francesco Piccinno]

I have contacted Broadcom asking for support and apparently there is
no way to fix the problem. Now I have a couple of questions: the use
of tg3 driver without a firmware expose the NIC to some risks or not?
And is there any chance to have the PCI IDs added back to tg3 module?
I do not want to modify and recompile the module at every version
bump.

Thanks for the support :)

--
Best regards,
Francesco Piccinno



On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:25:15 -0700
> "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:03:43AM -0700, Florian Mickler wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42132 Francesco wrote:
>> >
>> > > I have a notebook (HP TC4400) which has a BCM5750 ethernet card inside. The
>> > > ouput of lspci is:
>> > >
>> > > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5750M
>> > > Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:167c]
>> > >
>> > > Commit 67b284d476bcb3d100e946da23d6cf9acfd0465c removed the support for this
>> > > device. I wish to have the support for this network card back again. Thanks!
>>
>> Hi Florian.  Are you experiencing the same problem?  We found that
>> Francesco's problem was that the firmware of his device was missing.  Do
>> you see :
>>
>> eth0: No firmware running
>>
>> messages?
>>
>
> Hi Matt!
> No, I was just browsing the regression list and found this entry but
> couldn't associate any action with it.
>
> This clears that up, thanks for the information and I will close this
> bug.
>
> Regards,
> Flo
>

Re: re add support for bcm5750

[Matt Carlson]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:39:30AM -0700, Francesco Piccinno wrote:
> I have contacted Broadcom asking for support and apparently there is
> no way to fix the problem. Now I have a couple of questions: the use
> of tg3 driver without a firmware expose the NIC to some risks or not?
> And is there any chance to have the PCI IDs added back to tg3 module?
> I do not want to modify and recompile the module at every version
> bump.
> 
> Thanks for the support :)

That's the plan.  It's on my TODO list to add support back in.

> --
> Best regards,
> Francesco Piccinno
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:25:15 -0700
> > "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:03:43AM -0700, Florian Mickler wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42132 Francesco wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I have a notebook (HP TC4400) which has a BCM5750 ethernet card inside. The
> >> > > ouput of lspci is:
> >> > >
> >> > > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5750M
> >> > > Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:167c]
> >> > >
> >> > > Commit 67b284d476bcb3d100e946da23d6cf9acfd0465c removed the support for this
> >> > > device. I wish to have the support for this network card back again. Thanks!
> >>
> >> Hi Florian. ??Are you experiencing the same problem? ??We found that
> >> Francesco's problem was that the firmware of his device was missing. ??Do
> >> you see :
> >>
> >> eth0: No firmware running
> >>
> >> messages?
> >>
> >
> > Hi Matt!
> > No, I was just browsing the regression list and found this entry but
> > couldn't associate any action with it.
> >
> > This clears that up, thanks for the information and I will close this
> > bug.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Flo
> >
>