Bug 2118512

Summary:	no tg3 driver in RHEL9.0 formal kernel releases
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	quanm_qiu
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Ken Cox <jkc>
kernel sub component:	NIC Drivers	QA Contact:	Dipali <dipatel>
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Priority:	unspecified	CC:	mschmidt, network-qe
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Description quanm_qiu 2022-08-16 02:25:48 UTC

I have a Dell R730 with 4 Broadcom 5720 NICs.

The NICs work if I boot the machine with RHEL 9.0 installer ISO. But no 5720 NICs recognition while booting with formal kernel releases.

kernel-core-5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64
kernel-core-5.14.0-70.17.1.el9_0.x86_64
kernel-core-5.14.0-70.22.1.el9_0.x86_64

I unpacked all of above kernels, trying to search tg3 mod, but found nothing.

Is there natively support for 5720 NICs? Or the tg3 driver has been obsoleted?

Comment 1 Michal Schmidt 2022-08-16 09:45:27 UTC

It's in the kernel-modules subpackage:

$ rpm -qlp kernel-modules-5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm | grep tg3
/lib/modules/5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.ko.xz

What is the PCI ID of the device? lspci -vvnn

Comment 2 quanm_qiu 2022-08-16 15:24:09 UTC

PCI ID 14e4:165f

The minimal installer iso didn't install the kernel-modules package. So it's embarrassing, I need to install the package to drive the NIC, but I can't run dnf before driving the NIC.

I will install the kernel-modules by using USB-disk. Thanks for your advice.

Comment 3 Michal Schmidt 2022-08-17 20:04:36 UTC

What is the minimal installer iso? Is it this one?:

$ sha256sum rhel-baseos-9.0-x86_64-boot.iso 
f3ca9b53122212ed98866ef60e4895cc762493ced765e2961458944ba7c0ced3  rhel-baseos-9.0-x86_64-boot.iso

When using this ISO, even if a minimal installation is chosen in the installer, kernel-modules is present in the installed system.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-21 19:24:37 UTC

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Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-21 19:45:06 UTC

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