From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Matt Carlson" Subject: Re: re add support for bcm5750 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:28:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20110916162824.GB27116@mcarlson.broadcom.com> References: <1280784368-4226-8-git-send-email-mcarlson@broadcom.com> <20110906170343.09252578@schatten.dmk.lab> <20110907012515.GA9038@mcarlson.broadcom.com> <20110907203646.2a7b7833@schatten.dmk.lab> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Florian Mickler" , "Matthew Carlson" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Benjamin Li" , "Michael Chan" , "davem@davemloft.net" To: "Francesco Piccinno" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:25:15 -0700 > > "Matt Carlson" 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 > > >