Bug 112287
| Summary: | "tg3" driver fails to work with Broadcom BCM5704 GigE (AMD64) | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Ed Hill <ed> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | David Miller <davem> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | jgarzik, j, linville, petrides, riel, rperkins |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-09-11 01:17:51 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Ed Hill
2003-12-17 03:24:01 UTC
Does ifdown + ifup, or unplugging then replugging the cable, make things work? I'm having a problem that seems similar to this during kickstart. The nic does autonegotiation just fine, with the happy traffic light blinking, up until the moment when Anaconds loads the tg3 driver. At that point the link drops and stays off. Obviously the ksdevice=link directive doesn't work. When I choose the appropriate port, it just barely completes autonegotiation in time for the DHCP request to go through. But during operation things are fine. I have Tyan S2882 boards with two BCM5704s and one eepro100. I'm only running at 100mbit at the moment. I have tested with FC1 and FC2t3; the behavior is the same (although the two kernels order the three nics on the board differently). David, what info do you need? Can you please confirm that this problem is also present when using the 2.6 kernel? I think that is what the statement above says. If that question was put to me, then yes, the problem did happen under 2.6 (running FC2T3). However, FC2 release didn't seem to have the problem at all. At least, I was able to boot a machine using ksdevice=link without having to manually specify an interface. I will be doing a few more installations on this type of hardware so I will report back if I see any further problems. Can someone update where this ended up? Was support added for the Broadcom BCM5721 chipset added in the tg3 driver and in what RHEL? (U3 or U4?) See FZ - for the tg3 driver #106886. Looks like support may have been added and confirmed in U3, but I need to verify this for FSC asap. Thanks, JoAnne FSC IT_35225 John Linville, was any of this resolved in the tg3 driver upgrade that was just committed to U4? Current tg3 in RHEL3 U4 should be latter than what was in FC2. tibbs.edu indicated that version of the driver was working, so I'm guessing what is in U4 should be working too. Support for the BCM5721 should be included as well... Yes 5721 support is in there too. Ed Hill, could you please verify whether the problem you originally reported is resolved with the U3 kernel (2.4.21-20.EL)? The erratum is RHBA-2004:433 (which was released a week ago), and that included an update to the tg3 driver (to version 3.6RH). If you still have the same problem, then we could potentially make a U4-in-progress kernel available to you for testing purposes (but that hasn't yet gotten any Q/A, so we'd rather not do that if it's not really necessary). Thanks. -ernie Hi Ernie,
I wish I could! The board that I originally complained about (an
MSI-9131) was recently decomissioned since it refused to POST. And we
don't have any other MSI-9131 MBs. My notes show that the original
RHEL 3AS tg3 driver did not work but the tg3 driver included in Fedora
Core 2 for x86_64 did work and ran reliably for a few months.
We now have two nearly identical dual-Opteron systems both using Tyan
2885 motherboards with the following on-board GigE adapters:
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703X
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
Subsystem: Tyan Computer: Unknown device 2885
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 24
Memory at fc6f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=fc6e0000]
Expansion ROM at 00010000 [disabled]
One of these systems is running RHEL 3AS U2 and the other is running
FC2 with all updates applied. On both systems, the tg3 drivers are
working nicely.
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