Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:25:41 +0100 | From | Scott Ashcroft <> | Subject | Re: tg3/Broadcom gigabit driver just got worse in 2.4.23-pre3 |
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walt wrote: > Hi Jeff et all, > > I just tried 2.4.23-pre3 with results that are disastrous, for me at least. > > As you will remember, I'm the one who has to do an ifconfig down/up cycle > on my asus A7V8X mobo with built-in Broadcom chip. But after the updates > in -pre3 the chip no longer will work at all. > > In fact, if I try 'ifconfig eth0 down' the command hangs forever and chews > up 99.9% of the CPU. No packets are ever transmitted in spite of a normal > 'ifconfig' output after bootup. The chip is correctly identified in dmesg: > > eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95702A20) rev 1002 PHY(5703)] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) > 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:e0:18:d2:a6:c1
Same here but it's a 5705M in a laptop. Tried backing out just the changes to the tg3 driver but couldn't get it to build correctly.
Cheers, Scott
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