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Broadcom tg3 on Sunfire V210 problem



Hi!

I have successfully installed Etch's minimal base system on Sunfire V210, from the netinstall cd.
I can normally boot the system but I can't get the network interfaces working.

I have searched about this and I found that it might be related to an Broadcom tg3 driver licensing and distribution issue. 
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/debian-sparc-200507/msg00039.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/07/msg00044.html
[3] http://wiki.debian.org/?KernelFirmwareLicensing
[4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/05/msg00203.html

I'm feeling I'm running into a dead end. Most of this discussion is from year 2005 and I'm wondering if exists some kind of workaround that I can use.


My kernel is 2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp

# dmesg output
# dmesg | grep eth0

ide1: BM-DMA at 0x7fe01000928-0x7fe0100092f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA<6>eth0: Tigon3 [partno(none) rev 2003 PHY(5704)] (PCI:66MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:03:ba:8d:7b:c3
eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] Split[0] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
eth0: dma_rwctrl[763f0000] dma_mask[32-bit]
tg3: eth0: No firmware running.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready


Thanks for your help


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