On Thursday 10 November 2005 19:07, Andrew Sharp wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:45:43PM +0000, David Goodenough wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am new to Amd64, but have been using Debian for a long time. > > > > I was asked to install Debian on a couple of 1U servers running AMD-64 > > CPUs. They have NICs that require the TG3 driver. > > > > I got hold of the sid D-I business card ISO, and booted it up. It booted > > just find and correctly identified the need to load the TG3 driver. But > > it then failed to load it, and if I change to the second console and try > > to use modprobe explicitly it says that the TG3 driver is not found. > > > > Now I know there was a problem with the TG3 driver in that it required > > binary firmware, but I understand that there is now a version which > > does not need the firmware but does not enable all the facilities. > > The tg3 driver doesn't need/use firmware. I've heard from several sources > that there is some amd64 hardware that has built in NICs that detect > as tg3 but the driver either doesn't load or loads but doesn't work. > It could be the case that it's being mis-detected, or it's such a new > variant on Broadcoms tigon family that the tg3 driver doesn't like it. > You might try the GPL'd Broadcom source for bcm5700, but that probably > won't help you during install. Knoppix detects this as a Broadcom chip. And there is a Broadcom chip which is I think is the right number. > > > Having failed with that driver I then tried to plug in a USB ethernet > > adapter which would have needed the pegasus driver. But that is > > not auto-detected and again not loadable. > > > > There is a PCI slot spare, but it does not seem designed for > > ethernet cards in that I don't think I can get connected to it. > > You mean for physical reasons, like there is no case opening? Perhaps > you need a PCI riser card to use the slot. I will have to see if I have a suitable riser. Yes the problem is physical. > > a David
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