Re: broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit

[Stephen Mah <smah vmware com>]

The nic card seems to work on RHEL3 with the tg3 driver. Take a look at 
the lspci output for rhel3 & rhel4. rhel3 is showing way more devices.

RHEL3
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev 03)
00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 
AMD-8111 AC97 Audio (rev 03)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge 
(rev 12)
00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge 
(rev 12)
00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Miscellaneous Control
00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Address Map
00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
DRAM Controller
00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Miscellaneous Control
01:02.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3512 
[SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)
01:03.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
01:03.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
01:03.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
01:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A 
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
03:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703X 
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
80:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller 
(rev a3)
80:01.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller 
(rev a3)
80:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
80:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
81:00.0 PCI bridge: NEC Corporation: Unknown device 0125 (rev 03)
81:00.1 PCI bridge: NEC Corporation: Unknown device 0125 (rev 03)
82:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82545GM Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 04)
83:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902(B) U320 w/HostRAID 
(rev 10)
83:04.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902B U320 (rev 10)
84:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV41GL [Quadro FX 
1400] (rev a2)

RHEL4
80:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller 
(rev a3)
80:01.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller 
(rev a3)
80:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
80:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
81:00.0 PCI bridge: NEC Corporation: Unknown device 0125 (rev 03)
81:00.1 PCI bridge: NEC Corporation: Unknown device 0125 (rev 03)
82:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82545GM Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 04)
83:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902(B) U320 w/HostRAID 
(rev 10)
83:04.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902B U320 (rev 10)
84:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV41GL [Quadro FX 
1400] (rev a2)



Tom Sightler wrote:
> Sure, I have plenty of them working in the field.
>
> If you are not seeing the device at all on the PCI bus then it is likely
> a PCI enumeration error.  Many times onboard controllers are on a
> different PCI bus from the slots or other devices, for example, on my
> Dell 2650's the Broadcom adapters are on PCI bus 4.
>
> Usually problems with PCI bus enumeration are related to buggy BIOS not
> properly reporting their information in ACPI.  Many times a BIOS upgrade
> will fix these issue or you can try booting with acpi=off or pci=noacpi.
>
> We could probably be of more help if you mentioned the name of the
> system board and posted the output of lspci -vv and perhaps posted dmesg
> output.
>
> Later,
> Tom
>
>
>
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