BCM57786 driver

BCM57786 driver

[Joshua Richenhagen]

Hello everyone,

I recently bought a Acer Aspire E1-572 notebook with the gigabit
ethernet controller Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57786 builtin.
However I can't get it working under Ubuntu, neither with standard
kernel nor with newest mainline kernel 3.12 final. I doesn't seem to
be recognized at all, does a driver for this chip exists, or do I have
to wait till one gets released? How far is the developmend process?

Thanks in advance
Joshua

Re: BCM57786 driver

[Peter Meerwald]

Hi,

> I recently bought a Acer Aspire E1-572 notebook with the gigabit
> ethernet controller Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57786 builtin.
> However I can't get it working under Ubuntu, neither with standard
> kernel nor with newest mainline kernel 3.12 final. I doesn't seem to
> be recognized at all, does a driver for this chip exists, or do I have
> to wait till one gets released? How far is the developmend process?

I have the same notebook and reported to the Ubuntu bug tracker 
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1182868)
solution for me is to add the PCI vendor/product IDs to the tg3 driver

there seems to be a fix in the upstream kernel, see 
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/276813/
already

hope the Ubuntu folk act on this

regards, p.


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