From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucas Nussbaum Subject: Re: [BUG] tg3 cannot do PXE (loses MAC address) after soft reboot Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:41:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20070913154110.GA25781@xanadu.blop.info> References: <20070913083918.GA5386@xanadu.blop.info> <1551EAE59135BE47B544934E30FC4FC002AABA5B@nt-irva-0751.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Chan Return-path: Received: from xanadu.blop.info ([80.248.208.235]:39395 "EHLO xanadu.blop.info" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752760AbXIMPle (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:41:34 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1551EAE59135BE47B544934E30FC4FC002AABA5B@nt-irva-0751.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 13/09/07 at 08:15 -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > This used to work, and broke between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17. Using > > git bissect, > > I could trace this back to that commit: > > commit bc1c756741b065cfebf850e4164c0e2aae9d527f > > Author: Michael Chan > > Date: Mon Mar 20 17:48:03 2006 -0800 > > [TG3]: Support shutdown WoL. > > This may be caused by bugs in early versions of bootcode or > PXE code. When tg3 powers down the PHY during shutdown, the > MAC address will become zero in the MAC address register. The > PXE code or bootcode needs to fetch the MAC address again from > The NVRAM. > > Can you also send me ethtool -i eth0 which will provide the > bootcode version? What machine are you using? Thanks. # ethtool -i eth0 driver: tg3 version: 3.65 firmware-version: 5703-v2.21a bus-info: 0000:02:02.0 What do you mean by "what machine" ? The systems are Dell PowerEdge 1600SC, but the NICs were bought separately AFAIK. -- | Lucas Nussbaum PhD student | | lucas.nussbaum@imag.fr LIG / Projet MESCAL | | jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr +33 (0)6 64 71 41 65 | | homepage: http://www-id.imag.fr/~nussbaum/ |