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 21:28:12 +0200 Message-ID: <20070913192812.GA12053@xanadu.blop.info> References: <20070913083918.GA5386@xanadu.blop.info> <1551EAE59135BE47B544934E30FC4FC002AABA5B@nt-irva-0751.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> <20070913154110.GA25781@xanadu.blop.info> <1189706701.9540.84.camel@dell> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev To: Michael Chan Return-path: Received: from xanadu.blop.info ([80.248.208.235]:47654 "EHLO xanadu.blop.info" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752164AbXIMT2Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:28:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1189706701.9540.84.camel@dell> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 13/09/07 at 11:05 -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > 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. Erm, Wouldn't it be possible to print a warning when the driver loads, saying that the firmware is outdated ? -- | 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/ |