Bug 1000195 - tg3 BCM5705M link drops during boot
Summary: tg3 BCM5705M link drops during boot
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-22 22:17 UTC by Orion Poplawski
Modified: 2014-11-20 23:56 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-11-20 23:56:54 UTC
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Description Orion Poplawski 2013-08-22 22:17:48 UTC 
Description of problem:

I'm unable to install Fedora 17 through rawhide on a Latitude X300 with a:

02:05.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:165d] (rev 01)

network card.  During boot link drops around tg3 initialization/link up attempt and cannot be revived.

Actually appears to drop at this line:

IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): em1: link is not ready

Disabling ipv6 removes that line, but link still drops around that time.

Removing and re-adding the tg3 module in the dracut shell does not bring it back.

Disconnecting/reconnecting the cable doesn't help.

Appears to work fine under Windows XP.

Tried setting rd.blacklist=tg3 - no effect.

Set tg3.tg3_debug=-1 but no new messages.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.11.0-0.rc6.git1.2.fc21

How reproducible:
Every time
Comment 1 Orion Poplawski 2014-11-20 23:56:54 UTC 
Finally seems to be mostly working again.
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