From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Hartkopp Subject: Re: possible problem with tg3.c not loading firmware Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:13:08 +0100 Message-ID: <496CA174.1030006@hartkopp.net> References: <496C9F4D.7080101@option.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux netdev Mailing list To: Denis Joseph Barrow Return-path: Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.162]:13056 "EHLO mo-p00-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752432AbZAMONM (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:13:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <496C9F4D.7080101@option.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Denis Joseph Barrow wrote: > Hi, > I'm running ubuntu hardy heron 8.0.4. > my Ethernet controller is a Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) > > On linux-2.6.28-rc6 for the Tigon 3 driver there doesnt appear to be a seperate firmware file. > on linux-2.6.29-rc1 there is a tg3_tso5.bin.ihex. > There appears to be teething problems in getting the firmware file loaded on 2.6.29-rc1. > > From the dmesg attached the firmware doesn't appear to be loaded on first boot. > When I explicitly rmmod & modprobe the tg3 module it then works. > > Hi Denis, it's a know regression, see: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123182747323724&w=2 Please use CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL for now to be able to work again. Regards, Oliver