From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francesco Piccinno Subject: Re: re add support for bcm5750 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:39:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1280784368-4226-8-git-send-email-mcarlson@broadcom.com> <20110906170343.09252578@schatten.dmk.lab> <20110907012515.GA9038@mcarlson.broadcom.com> <20110907203646.2a7b7833@schatten.dmk.lab> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Matt Carlson , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Benjamin Li , Michael Chan , "davem@davemloft.net" To: Florian Mickler Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110907203646.2a7b7833@schatten.dmk.lab> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I have contacted Broadcom asking for support and apparently there is no way to fix the problem. Now I have a couple of questions: the use of tg3 driver without a firmware expose the NIC to some risks or not? And is there any chance to have the PCI IDs added back to tg3 module? I do not want to modify and recompile the module at every version bump. Thanks for the support :) -- Best regards, =46rancesco Piccinno On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Florian Mickler w= rote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:25:15 -0700 > "Matt Carlson" wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:03:43AM -0700, Florian Mickler wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D42132 Francesco w= rote: >> > >> > > I have a notebook (HP TC4400) which has a BCM5750 ethernet card = inside. The >> > > ouput of lspci is: >> > > >> > > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtre= me BCM5750M >> > > Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:167c] >> > > >> > > Commit 67b284d476bcb3d100e946da23d6cf9acfd0465c removed the supp= ort for this >> > > device. I wish to have the support for this network card back ag= ain. Thanks! >> >> Hi Florian. =C2=A0Are you experiencing the same problem? =C2=A0We fo= und that >> Francesco's problem was that the firmware of his device was missing.= =C2=A0Do >> you see : >> >> eth0: No firmware running >> >> messages? >> > > Hi Matt! > No, I was just browsing the regression list and found this entry but > couldn't associate any action with it. > > This clears that up, thanks for the information and I will close this > bug. > > Regards, > Flo >