From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: tigon3 firmware problem with 2.6.30-rc8 Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:46:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4A2E83C9.6020600@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Marco Berizzi Return-path: Received: from gw1.cosmosbay.com ([212.99.114.194]:47671 "EHLO gw1.cosmosbay.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbZFIPqW (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:46:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Marco Berizzi a =E9crit : > Hi folks, >=20 > I have a problem with a 3 years old notebook NIC, > tg3 with linux 2.6.29.4 and 2.6.30-rc8. > When I modprobe tg3 all is fine. When I issue > 'ifconfig eth0 1.1.1.1' I get this message: >=20 > tg3 0000:02:0e.0: firmware: requesting tigon/tg3_tso5.bin > eth0: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso5.bin" > eth0: TSO capability disabled. > tg3 0000:02:0e.0: PME# disabled > tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. > tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX >=20 > This is the output from ls -l /lib/firmware/tigon: >=20 > root@Ghawar:~# ls -l /lib/firmware/tigon > total 16 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2668 2009-06-09 17:18 tg3.bin > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7004 2009-06-09 17:18 tg3_tso.bin > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3884 2009-06-09 17:18 tg3_tso5.bin > root@Ghawar:~# >=20 > However the nic is working. >=20 > Any feed-back are welcome, > TIA >=20 You could try to set CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=3Dy in your .config