Bug#681089: Some progress

[Berni Elbourn <berni421@gmail.com>]

On 23/07/12 07:58, Berni Elbourn wrote:
> The combination of Squeeze, and the current "driver" from Broadcom seems to be stable. Note: The hardware is a HP ML115.
>
> $ sudo ifconfig eth0
> [sudo] password for elbournb:
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:5a:d3:d0:0c
> inet addr:192.168.2.10 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::221:5aff:fed3:d00c/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:175382 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:234297 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:23169470 (22.0 MiB) TX bytes:199392368 (190.1 MiB)
> Interrupt:19
>
> Although this is only after an hour of runtime, I ran this system for two days without a single error or dropout.
>
> elbournb@red:~$ sudo ethtool -i eth0
> driver: tg3
> version: 3.122n
> firmware-version: 5722-v3.07, ASFIPMI v6.02
> bus-info: 0000:11:00.0
>
> $ cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-45) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Sun May
> 6 04:00:17 UTC 2012
>
> So on this machine at least the Broadcom software is not stable on the Kernel backported from Wheezy. Also the current
> "firmware" for squeeze, or backported from wheezy is not stable.

Erm. To clarify that last missmash.

tg3 driver in linux-firmware-nonfree with Squeeze or Squeeze-backport kernel is not stable
3.122n driver from Broadcom with Squeeze kernel is stable
3.122n driver from Broadocm with Squeeze-backport kernel is not stable <- so this does not look good for wheezy ??
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