netdev - Re: re add support for bcm5750

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Date:	Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:39:30 +0200
From:	Francesco Piccinno <stack.box@...il.com>
To:	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>
Cc:	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Li <benli@...adcom.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: re add support for bcm5750

I have contacted Broadcom asking for support and apparently there is
no way to fix the problem. Now I have a couple of questions: the use
of tg3 driver without a firmware expose the NIC to some risks or not?
And is there any chance to have the PCI IDs added back to tg3 module?
I do not want to modify and recompile the module at every version
bump.

Thanks for the support :)

--
Best regards,
Francesco Piccinno



On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:25:15 -0700
> "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@...adcom.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:03:43AM -0700, Florian Mickler wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42132 Francesco wrote:
>> >
>> > > I have a notebook (HP TC4400) which has a BCM5750 ethernet card inside. The
>> > > ouput of lspci is:
>> > >
>> > > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5750M
>> > > Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:167c]
>> > >
>> > > Commit 67b284d476bcb3d100e946da23d6cf9acfd0465c removed the support for this
>> > > device. I wish to have the support for this network card back again. Thanks!
>>
>> Hi Florian.  Are you experiencing the same problem?  We found that
>> Francesco's problem was that the firmware of his device was missing.  Do
>> you see :
>>
>> eth0: No firmware running
>>
>> messages?
>>
>
> Hi Matt!
> No, I was just browsing the regression list and found this entry but
> couldn't associate any action with it.
>
> This clears that up, thanks for the information and I will close this
> bug.
>
> Regards,
> Flo
>
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