Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Sep 2003 02:05:51 +0200 | From | David Härdeman <> | Subject | Re: Broadcom BCM5901 NIC |
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Hi,
I tried unplugging/plugging the cable a few times along with ifup and ifdown a few times in different variations. It didnt seem to do much, one interesting thing that I noticed was that the Windows XP host that this laptop was connected to with a crossover cable during the testing reported the link as being down when the NIC was ifup'ed and vice versa.
After being bored with ifup/down and cable pulling I tried some modprobe/rmmod as well. This proptly hosed the system, the "ifconfig eth0 down" command is frozen, unkillable and consumes 100% CPU right now. ifconfig on another console to check if the card "is still there" also froze. Well, at least the network led woke up, its on constantly right now :-)
Ideas?
//David
PS With the tg3 driver the card is reported as a 33Mhz PCI card, with the bcm5700 it's reported as a 66Mhz PCI card, could this make a difference?
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:28:02PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >David Härdeman wrote: >>Hi, >> >>my new laptop (IBM Thinkpad G40) has an integrated NIC made by broadcom. >>It's a BCM5901 card for which support was added in the tg3 driver a few >>weeks ago (both in 2.4 and 2.6-test). However, the device doesn't work, >>it insmods just fine and claims the hardware, but the machine never >>responds to ping messages and the led indicating network activity is >>never activated. >> >>Broadcom has released a driver of their own (bcm5700) which works with >>kernel 2.4.21. When I try that combination it works fine, however, the >>bcm5700 driver wont work at all on recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernels. >> >>Does anyone know what is wrong with the tg3 driver? Has anyone tried >>using it on a 5901 card with success? > > >Trying unplugging/plugging the cable, or ifdown+ifup cycle, and let me >know if that fixes things. > > Jeff > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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