Bug 245135
| Summary: | Broadcom NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express does not work with RHEL5 | ||||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Lipika Pal <lpal> | ||||||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Andy Gospodarek <agospoda> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Martin Jenner <mjenner> | ||||||||
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | urgent | ||||||||||
| Version: | 5.0 | CC: | ashisha, bmaly, llim, maureen.hoffert, peterm, rajesh.dhingra, rranade, rsingh, smohan | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
| URL: | N.A. | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2007-0959 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2007-11-07 19:53:49 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 248654 | ||||||||||
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Description
Lipika Pal
2007-06-21 11:03:18 UTC
Created attachment 157525 [details]
Sysreport
This is on the HP nc6710s. Adding HP to the bug so that they can assist. RHEL5.1 will contain the lastest tg3 driver upstream. If it works on F7, there is an excellent chance it will work on 5.1 as well. Please test kernels here: http://people.redhat.com/agospoda/#rhel5 and report back whether the networking is working or not. Thanks! This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. Maureen, Please have the driver in comment #3 tested and post the results in this BZ for further action. It is inappropriate for me to be assigned testing/validation since I have neither HW nor SW image. Please request this testing of the original submitter from RH India support team they have the HW and Customer image. Thanks, M rajesh.dhingra - tried to add to CC list, but was not accepted. If rajesh.dhingra signs up for a bugzilla account they can be added to the CC list. When tested with the new kernel downloaded from the Link mentioned above. The system gives Kernel Panic while booting up, just after starting udev. Can you copy the details of the panic here (like captured with a serial console)? Thanks! smohan from Pune office mentioned that he has the hardware available to facilitate the testing effort. Hence, if this bug gets included, we will help to test this bug. Created attachment 160398 [details]
Kernel panic screen shot
As the serial console and the loop back cable is not available, the screen-shot
for the same has been attached.
Network controller is still not working on RHEL5 Update1 beta. When tried with RHEL5 Update1 Beta, the installation went smooth in graphical mode. But after installation, on rebooting the system, the kernel paniced. Thus, to check the network controller functionality, we tried installing the OS using NFS method. On selecting NFS, OS was unable to load the appropriate Network driver. Then on selecting the Broadcom 'tg3' driver from the displayed list, the following message was displayed: "No device found" Setting the exception flag for RHEL 5.1. This feature, along with BZ 245143, alre required to support a 15K laptop deployment. Brian apparently has this laptop. The panic in comment #11 seems to look like a sound issue. Are you working on that one, Brian? Apparently the kernels in comment #3 seem to cause this panic. I did not see any panic on this system with any of the kernels I have tested, but I will test the kernel in Comment #3 and report back my findings. Brian, Is the modem disabled on your laptop? I'm wondering is the softmodem driver (a binary blob) is causing the panic in comment #11, or another audio stream. Created attachment 161069 [details]
5906.patch
Brian has confirmed this patch will resolve the issue of the 5906M not working.
in 2.6.18-40.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5 An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0959.html |