> > > This is to announce the first test release of a new Broadcom Tigon3 > driver written by Jeff and myself. Get it at: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/TIGON3/tg3.patch.gz > > The patch is against 2.4.18 but there is no reason it should be > difficult to apply this patch to any other tree. > > We'd really appreciate if people would test this thing out as hard > as they can. I can tell you that I've personally only been able to > test out the following scenerios so far: > > 1) Both big-endian and little-endian platforms. > 2) 64-bit on big-endian side, 32-bit on little-endian side. > 3) IOMMU based PCI dma platform on 64-bit/big-endian side, > non-IOMMU based PCI dma platform on 32-bit little-endian side. > 4) 10baseT half duplex, 100baseT full duplex > 5) Copper based connectors, as that is all that Jeff and I have. > > 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. ok, I have a couple of cards with this chipset: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(3C996B-T) rev 0105 PHY(5401)] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:04:76:db:65:ea these are 3Com 3C996B-T copper 32/64 bit cards. No problems with modprobe or setting up the interface. At 100Mb get a full duplex message. But at 1000Mb I never receive packets at all (no RX packets, no errors), while at 100Mb I can get packets from ping in the ifconfig count but they dont seem to do anything (and arp just reports incomplete HW address). The lights indicate the correct speed on the card and switch, and also on crossover. Justin - : 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
