Bug#645308: tg3 broken for NetXtreme 5714S in squeeze 6.0.3 installer
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:53:51AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 07:07, Marc Haber
> <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> ...
> > this is a regression from 6.0.2.1 to 6.0.3.
> >
> > The IBM HS12 blade server has a Broadcom network chip:
> >
> > 04:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme 5714S Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:1669] (rev a3)
> > 04:04.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme 5714S Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:1669] (rev a3)
> ...
> >
> > Manually running modprobe -r tg3, modprobe tg3 on a shell allows the
> > installation to continue. The squeeze OS installed by the installer
> > has working network immediaely.
> >
> > With a 6.0.2.1 amd64 netinstall CD, things are just fine.
> ...
>
> It does seem to be a kernel issue so I reassigned it according.
Does the installer use a different kernel from what actually gets used
in the installed system?
Why was a new tg3 introduced in a point release kernel in the first
place?
Greetings
Marc
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