Re: Is tg3 broken in kernel-image-2.6-686-smp?
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:12:57 +0900, Horms <horms@verge.net.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:54:31AM +0100, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote:
> > I'd like to upgrade my kernel to kernel-image-2.6-686-smp for my Debian testing.
> > But I have been told that the tg3 driver is broken.
> > Do you know if it is fixed?
>
> Broken is in the eye of the beholder.
>
> Some firmware was removed a while back to make the driver DSFG free.
> This breaks the driver for some cards. But I think the general
> consensus is that we can't fix this. Well not without some serious
> re-engineering of the driver.
This is my card:
# lspci | grep BROADCOM
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation: Unknown device 1648 (rev 02)
02:00.1 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation: Unknown device 1648 (rev 02)
>From hp.com: Integrated Dual Broadcom 5704 Gigabit
http://www.broadcom.com/products/product.php?product_id=BCM5704
My server is a HP ProLiant DL140.
Should I go for kernel-image-2.6.8-hp?
> I am not aware of any other tg3 issues in 2.6.8-13, the current
> Debian version. Do you have a specific
> bug you are concerned about? Links to the LKML, Debian BTS or
> other sources would be of great use.
No, I was just told that tg3 was broken with regard to the tg3 driver:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/messages/8757fc63f02f1fd9,7d7e509b4570d4cb,8b3b5c2af36151ff,632096655c01ed67,299a608be10334c4,adecb149ead99f34,a3bd582c3871a314?thread_id=570988cf9d081615&mode=thread&noheader=1#doc_7d7e509b4570d4cb
Thanks,
Jacob
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