Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok)

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:53:31 -0800 (PST)

From: "Alessandro Suardi" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:33:35 +0100

> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Jaswinder Singh Rajput
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > Hello alessandro,
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Alessandro Suardi
> > <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Note that I don't have CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, but on
> >>  the other hand I didn't earlier, either... and yes, CONFIG_MODULES=y.
> >>
> >
> > Please try with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL , is this makes some difference.
> 
> Yes it does, thank you - 2.6.28-git11 with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
>  gets my tg3 back to work on boot. Must be a requirement since -git8 then ?

It is if you don't have the tg3 firmware files in your filesystem
already.