[ipxe-devel] Broadcom BCM5718

Adam Lewis alewis422 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 13:07:42 UTC 2016


As a follow up I have attached a test report for a version of the tg3
driver with a line commented out.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Adam Lewis <alewis422 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been working on integrating foreman (the upstream project to RHEL
> Satellite 6) into our environment. We are using diskless machine that
> sanboot to a storage array. We recently purchased a bunch of Allied Telesis
> cards that have the Broadcom BCM5718 chip on them and we are having some
> issues.
>
> I'm chainloading ipxe.lkrn and it doesn't seem to like the fiber NIC at
> all. As soon as iPXE initializes the device the link light goes out and
> stays out. The switch reports not connected and I'm dead in the water. I've
> enabled debugging and I'm seeing some errors, but I'm not sure which ones
> are significant. Some examples are:
>
> PCI 03:00.1 device not enabled by BIOS! Updating PCI command 0106->0107
> PCI 03:00.1 latency timer is unreasonably low at 0. Setting to 32.
>
> Any thoughts or places I could look for help?
>
> Thanks!
> Adam
>



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