On 10/16/11 18:23, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 23:04:00 CJoeB wrote: >> On 10/16/11 17:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:02:08 +0100, Mick wrote: >>>> As I said above the kernel ought to manage the order in which the >>>> modules and dependencies are loaded. >>> Would building one modules into the kernel and the other as a module >>> solve (well, kludge) the loading order problem? >> Tried building tg3 directly into the kernel. It didn't help. :-( > Try building both broadcom and tg3 directly into the kernel. > > If upon reboot that doesn't work build broadcom in the kernel and tg3 as a > module. > > If nothing else works, set up Florian's recommended init.d script and that > should sort it out.
Woo hoo! I did as someone suggested and build all broadcom and tg3 drivers into the kernel. I had previously build tg3 into the kernel, but that didn't work. However, when I was configuring the kernel this time, I noticed some entries about Broadcom PHY. On my laptop, when it boots and gets the the tg3 load, it says something about tg3 and has libphy in brackets. The stuff about Broadcom PHY was never built into the kernel and it wasn't something that I deselected. I'm not sure exactly what portion of this fixed the problem, but at least my ethernet is active when I boot! :-) Thanks to everyone who helped on this! Now, I'm on to working on an audio problem - Can't get audio CD's to play in either kscd or kaffeine. Haven't installed amarok yet. Regards, Colleen
