From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 Description of problem: The dual Opteron AMD Serenade system comes with a BCM5704 dual 10/100/1000 network interface. The corresponding tg3 linux driver does not work: - kernel-smp-2.4.20-18.8 (RH 8.0 errata) panics at ifconfig time ("CPU1 context corrupt" or similar) - vanilla 2.4.21 kernel with compiled-in tg3 driver freezes during boot after printing "tg3.c version whatever..." (or similar). A 3COM 100 Mbit card in the 32-bit PCI slot does work. K.Olchanski olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. blah... 2. 3. Additional info:
Does this still occur in RHEL3 / Fedora?
I have some dual Opteron systems using the Tyan S2882 motherboard, which has two BCM5704 nics and an EEPro100. Both FC1 and FC2T3 have no significant problems with any of the nics. (ksdevice=link doesn't work for the Broadcomms, but that's another bug report.)
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/