netdev - Re: tigon3 firmware problem with 2.6.30-rc8

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:40:55 +0200
From:	"Marco Berizzi" <pupilla@...mail.com>
To:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tigon3 firmware problem with 2.6.30-rc8

Marco Berizzi wrote:

Eric Dumazet wrote:

> 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

same problem also with 2.6.30
Is this the expected behaviour?
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