Re: tg3/Broadcom gigabit driver just got worse in 2.4.23-pre3

[Jeff Garzik]

Scott Ashcroft wrote:
> walt wrote:
>
> > Hi Jeff et all,
> >
> > I just tried 2.4.23-pre3 with results that are disastrous, for me at 
> > least.
> >
> > As you will remember, I'm the one who has to do an ifconfig down/up cycle
> > on my asus A7V8X mobo with built-in Broadcom chip.  But after the updates
> > in -pre3 the chip no longer will work at all.
> >
> > In fact, if I try 'ifconfig eth0 down' the command hangs forever and 
> > chews
> > up 99.9% of the CPU.  No packets are ever transmitted in spite of a 
> > normal
> > 'ifconfig' output after bootup.  The chip is correctly identified in 
> > dmesg:
> >
> > eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95702A20) rev 1002 PHY(5703)] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit)
> > 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:e0:18:d2:a6:c1
>
>
> Same here but it's a 5705M in a laptop. Tried backing out just the 
> changes to the tg3 driver but couldn't get it to build correctly.

Does 2.4.23-pre2 work for you?

	Jeff




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