Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:10:42 +0100 | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Subject | Re: tg3 'No PHY devices' loading issue |
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:50:07AM -0700, Matt Carlson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:18:57AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > Hi Matt and Michael, > > > > I'm seeing an odd issue with the tg3 driver on one of my development > > machines. I've tried kernels 3.2.10, 3.3.0, 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.4-rc3 > > and they all seem to exhibit this issue now. When the machine boots > > and the tg3 driver is loaded, it fails to find a PHY and then reports > > 'Problem fetching invariants of chip'. If I do a rmmod/modprobe of > > tg3 after login, the probe seems to work fine and ethernet works as > > expected. You can see this in the dmesg below: [...] > The 57788 uses the broadcom phylib module. For some reason, it isn't > available the first module load attempt. A while ago, code was added to > phylib to request modules from userspace if the particular phy support > code wasn't already loaded. It looks like this mechanism isn't working > too well the first time through. [...]
At a guess, tg3 is in the initramfs but broadcom isn't.
Ben.
-- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus
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