Bug#323440: installation-reports
> On Monday 29 August 2005 19:26, Christian Jordan wrote:
> > Thanks for answering! I tried something like that already - but there
> > were also networking issues (refer to Bug#324011 - sorry for not using
> > the same bug number, I'm not really experienced in giving bug reports
> > and feedback).
>
> tg3 should be included again in the 2.6.12 kernel, so that should work.
Yes, I thougth so... I tried it (and we have other boards with a broadcom
NIC, where it really works fine), but during install I _never_ got a
working network connection and afterwards with my own 2.6.12.5-kernel the
transfer rate was approx. 0.1-10 kB/s (on a 100MBit network) - seems only
to deliver timeouts - response time (ping of a PC on the same switch)
went up to 20000ms. Same happens during installation, but the
DHCP-Timeout seems to be too low, so I never get a network uplink (also
not at the vc2).
But I mentioned somewhere already: The Knoppix-DVD (Version 4) also uses
tg3 (as far as I remember it's a 2.6.11-kernel) - and there it works
without any problem, the DHCP is found within seconds. Strange enough....
> Hmm, I'm confused: what module do you need for the network card? tg3 or
> bcm57xx, or are both supported?
Usually yes - Broadcom recommends their bcm57xx anyway.
> I can't find bcm57xx in the kernel config. Is that is a free driver? If it
> is not in the official kernel sources, it will not be included in Debian.
The bcm57xx is a driver delivered directly from broadcom, there is also a
debian (nonfree-)package for that (unfortunatly it did not work for me,
no idea why), but I got the .tgz from broadcom
(http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/driver-sla.php?driver=570x-Linux)
Now I get the expected/usual performance and response time of the
network...
> We really need the info from 'lspci' and 'lspci -n' to trace your hardware
> detection problems. Can you please send that?
Ok, no problem anymore (but without network it is really a hardship) -
lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5950 (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a3f
0000:00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a38
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:19.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge
0000:00:1c.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.0 0403: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 5461
0000:00:1e.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 1573 (rev 31)
0000:00:1e.1 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
0000:00:1f.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c7)
0000:00:1f.1 RAID bus controller: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 5287 (rev 02)
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5954
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 169d (rev 11)
0000:03:15.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1002:5950 (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 1002:5a3f
0000:00:06.0 0604: 1002:5a38
0000:00:18.0 0600: 1022:1100
0000:00:18.1 0600: 1022:1101
0000:00:18.2 0600: 1022:1102
0000:00:18.3 0600: 1022:1103
0000:00:19.0 0604: 10b9:5249
0000:00:1c.0 0c03: 10b9:5237 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.1 0c03: 10b9:5237 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.2 0c03: 10b9:5237 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.3 0c03: 10b9:5239 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.0 0403: 10b9:5461
0000:00:1e.0 0601: 10b9:1573 (rev 31)
0000:00:1e.1 0680: 10b9:7101
0000:00:1f.0 0101: 10b9:5229 (rev c7)
0000:00:1f.1 0104: 10b9:5287 (rev 02)
0000:01:05.0 0300: 1002:5954
0000:02:00.0 0200: 14e4:169d (rev 11)
0000:03:15.0 0c00: 1106:3044 (rev 80)
> Also the installation logs would be nice (gzipped please).
That would be everything in /var/log/installer?
> Are you willing to do further test installs to resolve issues? You will
> not need to destroy your current installation; setting up a small (2GB)
> partition for testing should do.
I plan to buy a 2nd set with the same config (if my employer agrees to pay
:-) - then I can "play" a little bit more. But at the moment I have all of
the drive used for partitions, and the machine is my working PC, so I
cannot reboot it so often (ideally never).
But there are good chances, that the new one will come soon ;-) and then I
will try to be at your service.
> Can we close any of your reports? It would be good to concentrate
> information in one report to keep things simple.
> If you want to add information to an existing report, just email to:
> <bug number>@bugs.debian.org.
No problem for me if you close one - it was my mistake that the 2nd one
was opened anyway.
Best regards,
Christian
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