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From: dell core2duo <gentoomail.dell@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] BCM4401 Ethernet Card stopped working after kernel upgrade
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:10:22
Message-Id: e5e065050812131910s8268804i23dcf7562d55f47c@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi All,
2 I just upgraded to sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources-2.6.26 kernel. Everything
3 was working fine before but now my bcm4401 ethernet card stopped working.
4 I tried booting in my old kernel and card is working fine with old
5 kernel.
6
7 Could someone help to solve this problem ?
8
9
10
11 My dmesg snippet and some useful info are below.
12
13 <snip>
14 b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
15 b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
16 b44: eth0: powering down PHY
17 </snip>
18
19
20 Card
21 ====
22 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev
23 02)
24
25 Driver
26 =====
27 flukebox@flukebox ~ $ modinfo b44
28 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.26-tuxonice/kernel/drivers/net/b44.ko
29 version: 2.0
30 license: GPL
31 description: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100 PCI ethernet driver
32 author: Felix Fietkau, Florian Schirmer, Pekka Pietikainen, David S.
33 Miller
34 srcversion: AC42292194F1E7451BB40C6
35 alias: ssb:v4243id0806rev*
36 alias: pci:v000014E4d0000170Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
37 alias: pci:v000014E4d00004402sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
38 alias: pci:v000014E4d00004401sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
39 depends: mii
40 vermagic: 2.6.26-tuxonice SMP mod_unload modversions CORE2
41 parm: b44_debug:B44 bitmapped debugging message enable value (int)
42
43
44 Kernel
45 =====
46 flukebox@flukebox ~ $ uname -a
47 Linux flukebox 2.6.26-tuxonice #6 SMP Sun Dec 14 00:55:06 IST 2008 i686
48 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux