From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261198AbVGKHbk (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 03:31:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261219AbVGKHbk (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 03:31:40 -0400 Received: from acheron.ifi.lmu.de ([129.187.214.135]:60311 "EHLO acheron.ifi.lmu.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261198AbVGKHbj (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 03:31:39 -0400 Message-ID: <42D22059.8000607@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:31:37 +0200 From: Frank Steiner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050322) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kernel Mailing List Subject: tg3 fails with x86_64 (but works with i386) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. and no eth0 is available. However, when booting a 32bit version of 2.6.12.2, the cards work well with the tg3 module. So it must be some problem in the x86_64 specific kernel code. Any ideas what I could do? What further information can I provide? cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *