[8.163][QUESTION][OPEN] Equipment - Broadcom NICs

Hi,
I bought myself a new mini-itx motherboard which has 2 inbuilt Broadcom NICs.

This is good so far.

Start install, no NICs found. Investigate log file and find the following error.

Broadcom BCM57788 Gigabyte Ethernet PCIe ignored because it lacks a name (buggy hw?)
I have tried to update the BIOS, but that requires either windows or a DOS install and it appears to be the same version as on the website.

I looked through the hardware (HCL) list and can't find any specific Broadcom NICs only other manufacturers that use Broadcom chipsets.

Any ideas what the error message really means?

Ian

0 BarryG over 14 years ago

Hi Ian, that's apparently a pretty new chip (it's not in the v7 HCL at least).

Posting the output of
lspci -vvx
and
lspci -vvxn

should help Astaro to identify the hardware.

What motherboard is it?

Barry
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0 BarryG over 14 years ago

According to
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110026

this NIC needs both the 'broadcom' and 'tg3' kernel modules loaded, and in that order.

Barry
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0 RFCat_vk_01 over 14 years ago in reply to BarryG

Hi Barry,
not sure how to do that when the install fails with the broadcom chip only. I only get access to the logfile. Unless the commands will report on the cards after a build even there isn't any software loaded for them . I will give it a try later.

The motherboard is minix 880GX-USB3.

I don't think it will do what I want because the minimum power with one Intel NIC is 47watts.

Ian
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0 RFCat_vk_01 over 14 years ago in reply to RFCat_vk_01

The results of the information extracts.

Ian

braod1.zip
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0 Astaro Beta Bot over 14 years ago

Astaro Beta Report
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Version: 8.163
Type: QUESTION
State: OPEN
Reporter: RFCat_vk
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