Hi I am starting tg3 (eth0 Broadconm Redhat driver) on Linux at an earlier stage in the Linux OS bringup . I call it (insmod) from linuxrc at the Ramdisk but it fials (tg3_phy_probe fails) with a message: 'problem fetching invariants of the chip' . I did not check exactly were inside tg3_phy_probe it failed . Broadcom driver fails with similar message at the init_5700_board() while activated at the same bringup stage with message : 'Get Adapter info failed' . Is there anything (driver or else ) that has to be started before so that the the tg3 will start smoothly at the Linux ramdisk stage ? On a regular PC I am able to start eppro100.o from ramdisk without any preconditions. thanks, Zvi Dubitzky Storage Systems Technology Email: dubi@il.ibm.com IBM Haifa Research Laboratory Phone: +972-4-8296182 Haifa, 31905, ISRAEL - : 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