Bug#574888: installer: Squeeze alpha1 can't find Broadcom Netlink Gigabit Ethernet card
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 02:07:53PM +1000, Geoff Simmons wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:17:37PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Detect network card: [E]
> [...]
> > The key issue seems to be the message in dmesg:
> > tg3: Problem fetching invariants of chip, aborting.
>
> >From the supplied dmesg file:
>
> [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32-3-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-9) (maks@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-8) ) #1 SMP Wed Feb 24 18:07:42 UTC 2010
> [...]
> [ 18.666771] tg3 mdio bus: probed
> [ 18.666773] eth%d: No PHY devices
> [ 18.666788] tg3: Problem fetching invariants of chip, aborting.
>
> This issue was reported in bug #553024 - also concerning a Broadcom
> Netlink BCM57780 - and fixed in linux-2.6 2.6.32-11 ("phylib: Support
> PHY module autoloading").
Ah, great, so this can be closed once the installer uses this version
of linux-2.6.
Julian
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