Can you provide more details of the chip that you are using? More specifically, the device id, the revision. Thanks Manish --- Zvi Dubitzky <DUBI@il.ibm.com> wrote: > > 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 ===== http://www.hw-benchmarks.com - : 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
