On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 10:05 +0200, Frank Steiner wrote: > Frank Steiner wrote > > > Hi, > > > > I've two 3com 3C996B-T network cards (lspci says it's > > a Broadcom BCM5701 chip) in Asus A8V boards with an > > AMD64 4000+ cpu. Booting a x86_64 version of the > > 2.6.12.2 kernel, the tg3 module complains > > > > tg3.c: v3.31 (June 8, 2005) > > tg3_test_dma() Write the buffer failed -19 > > tg3: DMA engine test failed, aborting. > > > I could solve this: The A8V boards have (like all 64bit boards I guess?) > an option for memory remapping around the memory hole at 3.5GB. When > this remapping is activated, the tg3 driver fails with the error message > above. If the remapping is deactivated, the driver and the card work fine > (but linux can only work with 3.7 of the 4GB). But I need to have the > remapping deactivated anyway, because the fglrx driver won't work > either otherwise.
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