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 Wisl�ff 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
