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wpkzz
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 Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:41 pm Post subject: Broadcom BCM57788 unable to work [Solved] |
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Hello fellow gentooers, it is me again asking for help.
I am installing gentoo in a computer around 5 years old, a Pentium Core 2 Dell Desktop with an ethernet device detected by
lspci as:
Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe rev 01
I cannot seem to make it work. The kernel version is 3.17.7, and I have tried the following, with no
success.
a) compile bnx2x and tg3 as modules, load either one with /etc/conf.d/modules
b) compile both of them in-kernel or only one.
Strangely, when I use modprobe to load tg3 it doesn't complain, but it doesn't show it with lsmod.
The same goes for bnx2x. But if i search for the modules with
find /lib/modules/3.17whatever/ -type f -iname "*.ko" -or -iname "*.o"
they do not show up (in either compilation method).
Most of the pages of instructions that I found are for relative old kernels (around 2.6!).
The messages from startup and openrc don't seem to tell nothing wrong..
Thanks in advance
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Logicien
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:13 am Post subject: |
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Did you check the dmesg output? The tg3 module need firmware files to be install in the root partition. Than they can be load by the module. If you put tg3 in the kernel, it will need the firmware files being in too.
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charles17
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:43 am Post subject: Re: Broadcom BCM57788 unable to work |
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| wpkzz wrote: | Hello fellow gentooers, it is me again asking for help.
I am installing gentoo in a computer around 5 years old, a Pentium Core 2 Dell Desktop with an ethernet device detected by
lspci as:
Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe rev 01 |
Would you mind showing us your output of and |
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wpkzz
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 4:05 pm Post subject: Output from commands |
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Hi charles17:
Here's the output of the suggested commands:
From lspci -k (only the relevant line, i guess):
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03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 043e
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From lsmod:
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Module Size Used by
ntfs 184606 0
nouveau 1182076 1
cfbfillrect 3786 1 nouveau
cfbimgblt 2079 1 nouveau
wmi 7683 1 nouveau
video 12654 1 nouveau
fbcon 37260 76
cfbcopyarea 3230 1 nouveau
bitblit 4809 1 fbcon
softcursor 1277 1 bitblit
font 7332 1 fbcon
tileblit 1989 1 fbcon
ttm 59694 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 61052 1 nouveau
fb 53166 6 fbcon,drm_kms_helper,nouveau,softcursor,tileblit,bitblit
fbdev 774 2 fb,fbcon
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From ifconfig -a:
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lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
sit0: flags=128<NOARP> mtu 1480
sit txqueuelen 0 (IPv6-in-IPv4)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
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Logicien, i did emerged the package sys-kernel/linux-firmware and it complained that it was going to owervrite some files, in particular i remember that one of them looked like tg3.bin or something of the sort.
Thanks for the attentions!
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charles17
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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According to your lspci -k and ifconfig -a, you're still missing the correct kernel driver. Are you getting | Quote: | $ grep -i tigon3 /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_TIGON3=y |
Are you getting any output from dmesg like this? | Quote: | $ dmesg | grep 03:00.0
(Of course, this output is from mine)
[ 0.153052] pci 0000:02:0e.0: [14e4:169c] type 00 class 0x020000
[ 0.153089] pci 0000:02:0e.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0xe8110000-0xe811ffff]
[ 0.153222] pci 0000:02:0e.0: PME# supported from D3hot D3cold
[ 0.677845] tg3 0000:02:0e.0 eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95788A50) rev 3003] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) MAC address 00:1a:4b:61:99:85
[ 0.678899] tg3 0000:02:0e.0 eth0: attached PHY is 5705 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[0], EEE[0])
[ 0.679944] tg3 0000:02:0e.0 eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
[ 0.681001] tg3 0000:02:0e.0 eth0: dma_rwctrl[763f0000] dma_mask[32-bit]
[ 7.991520] tg3 0000:02:0e.0 enp2s14: renamed from eth0 |
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wpkzz
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 8:38 pm Post subject: Sort of solved, I guess. |
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I think I was missing some other modules. It seems that even though tg3 can be compiled without also compiling pptp, it needs it to work. I discovered that dependency using systemrescuecd and cheking its lsmod output. So I just located those modules in the menuconfig for the kernel, compiled them as modules (pptp and pppox), put them into /etc/conf.d/modules list, and now it works.
Thanks for the help! |
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