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From: "Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:33:35 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Jaswinder Singh Rajput
<jaswinderlinux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello alessandro,
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Alessandro Suardi
> <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Note that I don't have CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, but on
>>  the other hand I didn't earlier, either... and yes, CONFIG_MODULES=y.
>>
>
> Please try with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL , is this makes some difference.

Yes it does, thank you - 2.6.28-git11 with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
 gets my tg3 back to work on boot. Must be a requirement since -git8 then ?

Thanks again, ciao,

--alessandro

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