BCM57780 in Dell Precision T1500 ?

[Dave Cross]

On 22 February 2010 09:51, Karl-Olov Serrander <m11172 at abc.se> wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I have problems configuring network in rescue mode in Fedora 12 on this machine, finds no network interface.
> Standard F12 x86_64 DVD does not recognise the chip.
>
> Booting F12 Unity respin x86_64 (kernel 2.6.31.12-174.2.3) lspci detects the chip as BCM57780, but:
> dmesg says:
> tg3.c:v3.99 (April 20, 2009)
> tg3 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> tg3 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> tg3 0000:02:00.0: PME# disabled
> tg3 mdio bus: probed
> eth%d: No PHY devices
> tg3: Problem fetching invariants of chip. aborting
> tg3 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
>
> I will need to kickstart this machine in the future, so a solution with a driverdisk
> would be fine.
>
> Any suggestions ?

This is a known issue.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=BCM57780 (which
includes a workaround that worked for me).

Dave...