Re: tg3:No interrupt was generated using MSI, switching to INTxmode. Please report this failure to the PCI maintainer and includesystem chipset information.

[Michael Chan]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:04 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Marc Donner <donner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:58:30 +0100
> 
> Please report networking problems to netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (added to CC:)
> 
> Many networking developers do not read linux-kernel
> 
> > Hi @all,
> > 
> > we have installed a dual port Brodcam Gigabit Ethernet NIC, and get the
> > following error in dmesg:
> > 
> > tg3: eth1 No interrupt was generated using MSI, switching to INTx mode.
> > Please report this failure to the PCI maintainer and include system
> > chipset information.
> > 
> > Who is responsible for this error message? We are using Kernel 2.6.21.1
> > and the NIC Chipset is a Broadcom BCM5715CKPBG
> > 

This message means that your system chipset (not the NIC) does not
support MSI.  Please provide lspci -vvv to show the system chipset on
your system.  Thanks.


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