Re: Old bug in tg3 driver unfixed?

Bill Davidsen
2007-07-02T17:11:26Z

Tim Boneko wrote:
> Hello!
> I am not subscribed to this list so please CC answers to my mail
> address. THX!
>
> I recently replaced the mainboard of one of my servers with a Tyan
> Tomcat K8E. The onboard gigabit NIC is a Broadcom BCM5721. After
> compiling and loading the tg3 driver in Kernel 2.6.21.5, the interface
> could not be configured: "Device not found".
> While searching the net i found a few other people with the same problem
> but no solution.
>
> By coincidence i found that a simpe "ifconfig eth1" worked OK and
> afterwards the device could be configured and used as desired. After
> searching this list, i found this posting
>
Probably unrelated, but what's eth0?

> http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.0/0224.html
>
> by someone with obviously the same problem.
> Has some patch of the driver been reversed or is the hardware buggy?
>
> BTW the chip is connected via PCI Express.
>
I have that chip in a system, but I didn't find it quickly, it may be at
another location, unless the controller which shows up as 3C940 on my
ASUS P4P800 is the Broadcom.

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