On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:21:28AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
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> Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:11:50AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> 
> It may be different versions of ASF.  Try ethtool -i eth0.  It
> may tell us the firmware version.

$ sudo ethtool -i eth0
driver: tg3
version: 3.92.1
firmware-version: 5704-v3.26
bus-info: 0000:02:00.0

The other box is the same, only that bus-info ends in .1, and the .0
device is unused.

Greetings
Marc

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