On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:11:50AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
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> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 10:47 -0700, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Now I need to understand why the other, nearly[1] identical box didn't
> > need the patch to function properly.
> 
> It depends on whether you have ASF enabled or not and what version of
> ASF you have.  ASF is management firmware running inside the NIC.  When
> the tg3 driver loads, it will show ASF[1] in dmesg if ASF is enabled.

Both machines have that string in their dmesg.

Greetings
Marc

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