Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262251AbTI0X2P (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:28:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262262AbTI0X2P (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:28:15 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:11685 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262251AbTI0X2O (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:28:14 -0400 Message-ID: <3F761D02.3050708@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:28:02 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?David_H=E4rdeman?= CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM5901 NIC References: <20030927231904.GA22769@hardeman.nu> In-Reply-To: <20030927231904.GA22769@hardeman.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David H?rdeman wrote: > 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? Trying unplugging/plugging the cable, or ifdown+ifup cycle, and let me know if that fixes things. Jeff - 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/