tg3 and lenny

Robin Lee Powell rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org
Mon Feb 16 00:21:00 CET 2009


On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:02:41AM -0800, hOOlä'gOO khän wrote:
> debian lenny is being inflicted on the world as 'stable' now.
> 
> Has anyone ever successfully FAI'd a machine with a Broadcom tg3
> nic and Lenny ?  Yes, you guys with recent Dell machines.

I'm having no trouble with it at all, except for the whole
dual-nic-ipconfig issue.  Here's a snippet.  What trouble are you
having?

[   17.159381] ide_generic: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free.
 ... Begin: Running /scripts/live-premount ... done.
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 00:23:54:37:d4:44 mtu 1500 DHCP
IP-Config: eth1 hardware address 00:23:54:37:d5:77 mtu 1500 DHCP
[   19.320929] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[   19.320929] tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
[   20.940180] tg3: eth1: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
[   21.040404] tg3: eth1: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
IP-Config: eth1 guessed broadcast address 172.16.2.255
IP-Config: eth1 complete (from 172.16.126.96):
 address: 172.16.2.27      broadcast: 172.16.2.255     netmask: 255.255.255.0
 gateway: 172.16.2.1       dns0     : 172.16.128.56    dns1   : 0.0.0.0
 host   : sv-query16i-nic1
 domain : looksmart.com
 rootserver: 172.16.126.96 rootpath:
 filename  : pxelinux.0
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 00:23:54:37:d4:44 mtu 1500 DHCP
IP-Config: eth1 hardware address 00:23:54:37:d5:77 mtu 1500 DHCP
IP-Config: eth1 guessed broadcast address 172.16.2.255
IP-Config: eth1 complete (from 172.16.126.96):
 address: 172.16.2.27      broadcast: 172.16.2.255     netmask: 255.255.255.0
 gateway: 172.16.2.1       dns0     : 172.16.128.56    dns1   : 0.0.0.0
 host   : sv-query16i-nic1
 domain : looksmart.com
 rootserver: 172.16.126.96 rootpath:
 filename  : pxelinux.0
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 00:23:54:37:d4:44 mtu 1500 DHCP
IP-Config: eth1 hardware address 00:23:54:37:d5:77 mtu 1500 DHCP
[   38.086816] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[   38.143096] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[   38.263102] aufs 20080714

-Robin


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