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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] tg3 cannot do PXE (loses MAC address) after soft
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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:05:01 -0700
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On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 17:41 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> # ethtool -i eth0
> driver: tg3
> version: 3.65
> firmware-version: 5703-v2.21a
> bus-info: 0000:02:02.0

The firmware is quite old and needs to be upgraded to fix the problem.
I'll have someone contact you to get it upgraded.

> 
> What do you mean by "what machine" ? The systems are Dell PowerEdge
> 1600SC, but the NICs were bought separately AFAIK.

I assumed the device was on-board which would normally require a BIOS
upgrade.  For NICs, it's easier.