BCM57780 in Dell Precision T1500 ?

[Karl-Olov Serrander]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Dave Cross wrote:

> 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...
>

Thanks, the workaround worked for mw too. Hope this get solved, I really would like to use kickstart.
I will follow this bug.

Regards
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Karl-Olov Serrander m11172.abc.se