Re: kernel headers package
Hi all,
thanks to everyone who has helped on this. The most happy of results has
(eventually) been reached. A working driver in the vanilla kernel.
As it turns out tg3 in 2.4.26 doesn't support this card. However, the one
in 2.4.27 does. Before figuring this out I spent quite some time getting
the header packages, transferring them over on a cdrw and compiling the
bcm5700 driver. I did this with several kernels. Every time I did the
driver would load correctly, then I'd bring up the interface and as soon as
anything touched it I'd get a kernel panic.
On the last attempt with 2.4.27-686 I tried it, it hung as before and when
I rebooted I tried tg3 again just to see. It worked. This was a moment of
great relief considering the bcm5700 hanging issue.
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Klaus Ade Johnstad wrote:
> Adding the line
> 14e41659 ethernet tg3 NetXtreme BCM95721Gigabit Ethernet
>
> to /usr/share/discover/pci.lst and upgrading the kernel to 2.4.26-smp
> helped.
I'm not sure why but my 2.4.26 wouldn't do it. I did notice a couple of
different package subversions. Could that have been the difference? I
have the exact same pci-id the tg3 definitely wouldn't load. I was using
the current stable installer kernel.
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Ragnar Wisløff wrote:
> I think it is a shame that IBM releases a mainstream Intel server with
> hardware that is not supported by the standard kernel, if that is what they
> have done. So much for the dinner speeches about Linux support in that case.
Actually, the standard tg3 driver works. I just needed a very recent
version.
> Then I bugged this,
> http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=769
> http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=914
As I'm the same PCI-ID I won't duplicate this.
Gavin
Reply to: