netdev - Re: tigon3 firmware problem with 2.6.30-rc8

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Message-ID: <4A2E83C9.6020600@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:46:17 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Marco Berizzi <pupilla@...mail.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tigon3 firmware problem with 2.6.30-rc8

Marco Berizzi a écrit :
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have a problem with a 3 years old notebook NIC,
> tg3 with linux 2.6.29.4 and 2.6.30-rc8.
> When I modprobe tg3 all is fine. When I issue
> 'ifconfig eth0 1.1.1.1' I get this message:
> 
> tg3 0000:02:0e.0: firmware: requesting tigon/tg3_tso5.bin
> eth0: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso5.bin"
> eth0: TSO capability disabled.
> tg3 0000:02:0e.0: PME# disabled
> tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
> tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
> 
> This is the output from ls -l /lib/firmware/tigon:
> 
> root@...war:~# ls -l /lib/firmware/tigon
> total 16
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2668 2009-06-09 17:18 tg3.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7004 2009-06-09 17:18 tg3_tso.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3884 2009-06-09 17:18 tg3_tso5.bin
> root@...war:~#
> 
> However the nic is working.
> 
> Any feed-back are welcome,
> TIA
> 

You could try to set CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y in your .config

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