Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264528AbTIDBx5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:53:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264531AbTIDBx5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:53:57 -0400 Received: from www.mail15.com ([194.186.131.96]:23556 "EHLO www.mail15.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264527AbTIDBxF (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:53:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3F569AF8.9040507@myrealbox.com> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 18:52:56 -0700 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: tg3/Broadcom gigabit driver just got worse in 2.4.23-pre3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1823 Lines: 41 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 and lspci: 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80a9 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at f1800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at f7ff0000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device. Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable- The data above were taken from 2.6.0-test4, but are the same in 2.4.23-pre3. I would ask that you please not apple these recent changes to 2.6.0 until we figure out what the problem is. Again, I offer to do whatever testing/patching/whatever that I can do to get this resolved, but you'll need to give me some specific instructions. Thanks! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/