Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support

From: william paul (wpaul_at_windriver.com)
Date: 07/14/03

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    To: maav@cablebg.net
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:26:45 -0700 (PDT)

    Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Boris Georgiev
    had to walk into mine and say:

    > Kenneth,
    >
    > As I already posted William, I have bad news - it doesn't work for me. I
    > rebuilt kernel yesterday with
    > the patched sources and the only thing that happened is that the kernel
    > recognised the LAN card and
    > after that it tried to upload the firmware on the NIC chip, but
    > unsuccessfully.

    Uh....

    First of all, the driver does not load any firmware into the chip.

    Second, you're not supposed to tell me your interpretation of what
    happened: you're supposed to cut&paste the messages into an e-mail
    so that I can see for myself what happened.

    Please show me all of the information that led you to your conclusion
    that this alleged firmware upload failed.

    > It gave me out
    > an timeout message and didn't load the driver at all. I am sorry that at
    > this time I cannot send
    > the exact message from the kernel, but the notbook is at my office, so I
    > will post it
    > tomorrow if the output will help for finding out what the problem is.
    > Best regards,

    Ok, note to all reading this: if I ask for information and you don't
    have the information available, don't bother sending me an e-mail
    just to tell me that you don't have the information available. Wait
    until you do have the information available, and then e-mail me. You'll
    save precious time and electrons.

    -Bill 

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