Subject: Re: tg3 driver fails with on-board BCM95789 NICS (GigaByte GA-7VCSV)

From: "Michael Chan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:39:46 -0700

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 09:02 -0400, Richard Bollinger wrote:

> # ethtool -t eth2
> The test result is FAIL
> The test extra info:
> nvram test     (online)          0
> link test      (online)          1
> register test  (offline)         0
> memory test    (offline)         0
> loopback test  (offline)         0
> interrupt test (offline)         1
> 

This confirms that it's some kind of interrupt problem as David had
suggested, at least on eth2.  You can try booting with "noapic" to see
if it works if you haven't got the patch from Adrian Bunk yet.