David S. Miller: > Gigabit and fibre are the big areas where our testing has been > lacking. We have also not done any tuning of the driver at all, > although we do consider the driver feature complete. I've tested the driver from broadcom (yeah, yeah, the sucky driver :) and now I've tested yours, and this is the result (from dmesg): tg3.c:v0.90 (Feb 25, 2002) tg3: Problem fetching invariants of chip, aborting. This is lspci -vvvxx: 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation BCM5700 1000BaseTX (rev 12) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00d1 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at feb00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device. Command: DPERE- ERO+ RBC=0 OST=0 Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM- Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME- Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable- Address: 9b8dc9bb84b8f3a8 Data: bed9 00: e4 14 44 16 02 01 b0 02 12 00 00 02 08 20 00 00 10: 04 00 b0 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 10 d1 00 30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 40 00 If you need any more info, I'll be happy to provide. -- Thomas - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html