Check out http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304265 and then update to
2.6.32-r5

Cheers

Kad

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>wrote:

> Hi collective,
>
> I just upgraded from linux-2.6.32-tuxonice-r1 to r4 and my network card
> no longer works.  It is "Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5756ME
> Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express" and previously I've downloaded firmware
> from
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware-from-kernel.git;a=tree;f=tigon
> and put it in /lib/firmware/tigon
>
> The config option is tg3, built into the kernel.
>
> dmesg shows:
> $ dmesg | grep -i tg3
> tg3.c:v3.102 (September 1, 2009)
> tg3 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> tg3 0000:09:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> tg3 0000:09:00.0: firmware: requesting tigon/tg3_tso.bin
> tg3: tg3_load_firmware_cpu: Trying to load TX cpu firmware on eth0 which is
> 5705.
> tg3: tg3_load_firmware_cpu: Trying to load TX cpu firmware on eth0 which is
> 5705.
>
> I don't know if the last two lines are normally there or not.  The
> firmware at the above link hasn't changed (according to cksum).
>
> Google searches only produce the source code, which is pretty but
> doesn't help.  The error detection around the print message hasn't
> changed since -r1.
>
> Any ideas?  I'm stuck using wireless, but that's dropping in and out all
> the time!
>
> thanks,
> --
> Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
>
> Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake
> when you make it again.
>                -- Franklin P. Jones
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