[gentoo-user] Broadcom firmware doesn't work with 2.6.32-r4

[gentoo-user] Broadcom firmware doesn't work with 2.6.32-r4

[Iain Buchanan]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Broadcom firmware doesn't work with 2.6.32-r4

[Kaddeh]

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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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Re: [gentoo-user] Broadcom firmware doesn't work with 2.6.32-r4

[Iain Buchanan]

On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 08:48 -0800, Kaddeh wrote:
> Check out http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304265 and then
> update to 2.6.32-r5

thanks, that wasn't there when I started looking :)  I'll see what they
find (in the mean time, Go Flaky Wireless!)

-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

Whatever is not nailed down is mine.  Whatever I can pry up is not nailed down.
		-- Collis P. Huntingdon, railroad tycoon