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Problems with tg3 driver in 2.6 kernel



I have a dual Opteron system with a Broadcom Tigon 3 NIC.  It's running Debian Sarge 3.1.  When I boot the 2.4.27-2-386 kernel, everything works. When I boot the 2.6.18-4-amd64 kernel, the NIC is unable to talk to the network.  The driver loads without throwing any errors, but no packets are ever sent or received.

Web searches turn up references to tg3 being crippled in 2.6 Debian kernels due to non-free firmware, so I tried building my own kernel from vanilla kernel source version 2.6.21, using make-kpkg.  It still doesn't work.

Any suggestions?  Is there a boot option or userspace tool I'm missing to get this working under 2.6?


David Brodbeck
Information Technology Specialist 3
Computational Linguistics
University of Washington



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