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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:51:14 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: 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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Scott Ashcroft wrote:
> 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.

Does 2.4.23-pre2 work for you?

	Jeff


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