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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:25:41 +0100
From: Scott Ashcroft <ashcroft@qzxyz.com>
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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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