From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262243AbTI0XTO (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:19:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262251AbTI0XTO (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:19:14 -0400 Received: from as1-2-5.han.s.bonet.se ([194.236.155.59]:39694 "EHLO palpatine.hardeman.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262243AbTI0XTL (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:19:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:19:06 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4rdeman?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Broadcom BCM5901 NIC Message-ID: <20030927231904.GA22769@hardeman.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? Regards, David relevant part of dmesg with 2.4.21 + bcm5700 -------------------------------------------- Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Driver bcm5700 with Broadcom NIC Extension (NICE) ver. 6.2.17 (07/14/03) eth0: Broadcom BCM5901 100Base-TX found at mem d0200000, IRQ 11, node addr 00061bc20348 eth0: Broadcom BCM5705 Integrated Copper transceiver found eth0: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx Checksum ON, Rx Checksum ON, 802.1Q VLAN ON, NAPI ON lspci -vvv with 2.4.21 + bcm5700 -------------------------------- 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 170d (rev 01) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0545 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR-