Andreas Jaeger wrote:

"Mike D. Frenz" writes:

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Hello,

we have some trouble with SuSE 8.2 Beta x86-64 Prof. Ed. on a TYAN Thunder K8S (S2880) BIOS 2.01 (newest): On installing there are two onboard Broadcom Gigabit NIS detected (BCM5704) but if the driver (bcm5700)is loaded :"cannot get MAC addr from NVRAM" is displayed and so eth0 and eth1 are FAILED.

Does the tg3 driver work? There're two different drivers for the cards...

No, the same: after insmod bcm5700 or tg3: ...init_module: no such device

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Also the DOS-Diskette-Tool 57udiag.exe from Broadcom give one error: "CPU-Test failed: register 5034 is 0xd", rest is PASSED. Perhaps a tool for 32bit non-Opteron systems??

A DOS disk should work with any Opteron system.

So, if this does not work, it looks like some hardware problem to me,

to me too

Andreas

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The driver from Broadcom was compiled to a single CPU Kernel and doesn´t work with a SMP-Kernel (Dual Opteron) Isn´t it possible to flash a new MAC into the NICs? Dan wrote:

I've tried tg3 driver in 2.6 but it didn't find either interface. :(

--- Andreas Jaeger wrote:

...

"Mike D. Frenz" writes:

...

Hello,

we have some trouble with SuSE 8.2 Beta x86-64

Prof. Ed.

...

on a TYAN Thunder K8S (S2880) BIOS 2.01 (newest): On installing there are two onboard Broadcom

Gigabit NIS detected

...

(BCM5704) but if the driver (bcm5700)is loaded

:"cannot get MAC addr

...

from NVRAM" is displayed and so eth0 and eth1 are

FAILED.

Does the tg3 driver work? There're two different drivers for the cards...

...

Also the DOS-Diskette-Tool 57udiag.exe from

Broadcom give one error:

...

"CPU-Test failed: register 5034 is 0xd", rest is

PASSED.

...

Perhaps a tool for 32bit non-Opteron systems??

A DOS disk should work with any Opteron system.

So, if this does not work, it looks like some hardware problem to me,

Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:54:05AM -0700, Dan wrote:

I've tried tg3 driver in 2.6 but it didn't find either interface. :(

Did you check 2.6.0-test5 (out since yesterday)? It has an updated tg3 driver that should work with more chips. The tarball from kernel.org should compile out of the box for x86-64 -Andi

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:19:38AM -0700, Dan wrote:

I'll give -test5 a try. Good thing it can compile straight out for x86-64. Has anyone notice www.x86-64.org is down for a few days now? Google search doesn't show any x86-64 mirror sites.

They seem to have name server problems. From SuSE it is still resolvable, but from other ISPs the resolution also fails. Ricardo, any ideas what's happening? -Andi

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:40:51PM -0700, Dan wrote:

Thanks Andi for your suggestion. I loaded -test5 from kernel.org on a dual Opteron server based on TYAN Thunder K8S (S2880) and it works fine without much trouble. The tg3 driver is working for BCM5704. Server reboot didn't bring up the interface automatically. Instead it showed a "Can't get a valid interface name --> skipped" error message. Later I manually bring up the ethernet interface.

For me it works with compiled in tg3.

Now the big question is how I can compile the source for other cards, e.g. 3ware, in 2.6 environment? Can I modify the Makefile so it can compile?

2.6 already has a "3w-xxx.c" driver included. Perhaps that one will work. -Andi