[ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit

[Kevin Tran]

Hi Brandon,

I tested iPXE with BCM5764m and it works fine for me even with 1G port on the Dell 6224 switch.   I didn't test out all possible device configurations yet.  We mainly focused our testing on BCM5719 devices.

Your problem might be due to the fact that management firmware is enabled on the your setup .   I need to reproduce your problem in my environment and I need the configuration of your NIC.



1. Enter engineering mode

    B57diag -b57eng

2. log mycfg.txt

3. dev

4. dir

5. secfg

6. press <enter> a few times and then type cancel.

7. close



All the configuration will be captured in the mycfg.txt.  Send me the file mycfg.txt.



Thanks!

Kevin



-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Penglase [mailto:bpenglase-ipxe at spaceservices.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:25 AM
To: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
Cc: Brendon Walsh; Kevin Tran
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit



Should have added this one too:

http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-May/001477.html , where we had actually worked on it in the IRC Channel.



Brandon Penglase



On 08/21/12 11:15, Brandon Penglase wrote:

> I noticed this, this morning as well. I plan to do some debugging this

> afternoon, once I get some other issues out of the way from the start

> of our semester.

> I'm not sure if Kevin has seen the previous post or not, but it's

> here: http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-May/001461.html .

>

> I do want to thank the guys/gals at Broadcom who are putting an effort

> into this, as it does appear to have fixed a different issue we had

> (If you booted via USB, into a WinPE image, the WinPE image was not

> able to use the NIC. This appears to be working as expected now).

>

> I plan to do a DEBUG=tg3 build, so if more debugging, or another is

> requested, let me know and I can include that. The machine I have for

> testing does have a Serial output, so I can easily grab any console

> output.

>

> Brandon Penglase

>

>

> On 08/21/12 10:53, Brendon Walsh wrote:

>> Hi,

>>

>> I just wanted to notify everyone that the recent commit with fixes

>> for the tg3 driver (a05871d89ad9b94248049c66f238092fc896e9aa) have

>> not made any noticeable difference in regards to functionality on

>> gigabit interfaces.

>>

>> I am testing with BCM5764M and while iPXE will function properly on

>> 100Mbit, it fails on DHCP still on a gigabit link. This behaviour is

>> the same as before this commit.

>>

>> Thanks Kevin and all others who are working on this. I can provide

>> any data that may help with resolving this issue.

>>

>> Brendon

>>

>>

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