[ltp] IBM Thinkpad G40 issues

[Mykroft Holmes IV]

I have the broadcom-provided driver working on the 2.4.22-xfs kernel 
shipped with Knoppix 3.3

Adam

David Härdeman wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've recently bought a new IBM G40 series Thinkpad and I have some
> questions I'd like to check with the people on this list. The NIC is a
> Broadcom 5901 100Mbit controller. It's supported by broadcoms own
> bcm5700 driver, but the latest version on their website is for kernel
> 2.4.21. The driver works just fine with that kernel but I've not been
> able to make it work with a 2.4.23-pre kernel or 2.6.0-test kernel (not
> very surprising that it's not working with a 2.6 kernel though).
> 
> So my questions are:
> 
> 1) Has anyone been able to compile and use the broadcom driver for a
> kernel more recent than 2.4.21?
> 
> 2) In the latest kernels (both 2.4 and 2.6), support has been added for
> the 5901 NIC in the "tg3" driver, but it doesn't seem to do anything for
> me. Has anyone else been able to use the G40's NIC with the tg3 driver?
> (both positive and negative reports would be great).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> David Härdeman
> david@2gen.com
> 
> PS
> For people interested in the progress of working ACPI on the G40, see:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265
> 
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