The BCM5722 firmware is all in flash, not loaded from disk. (The description of firmware-linux-nonfree lists all the chips that it provides firmware for.) Therefore, you have not found a bug in firmware-linux-nonfree, but in the tg3 driver or firmware in flash. Also, any problems with a driver package you got from Broadcom must be reported to Broadcom - not to Debian. As for the increase in the RX dropped counter: since Linux 2.6.37 this includes packets that were dropped by the kernel before protocol processing, which were not previously counted at all. So this probably does not indicate a regression in the driver. If I understand your original report correctly, the tg3 driver in Debian kernel version 2.6.32-45 fails periodically and the driver in version 3.2.20-1~bpo60+1 does not. So we need to look for a fix to the driver that was made between those versions. Let me know if my understanding is correct. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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