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vandeminek

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Registered: 2010-09-22

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] BCM57760 don't work with Arch for me

Hello,

I bought a notebook about a week ago (Acer TravelMate 8572TG), I thought to install Arch on it, but I can't bring up the internet connection neither for wired nor for wireless. It has 14e4:1690 Broadcom BCM57760 ethernet and 14e4:4357 Broadcom wifi.

For 57760 I found Tigon3 (tg3) driver, modprobed it, but when I ran 'ifconfig eth0 up' it says: eth0: unkown interface: no such device.

And for the wifi I modprobed the wl driver and the lib80211_crypt_tkip, but I can't connect (no such device..)

In dmesg nothing shows up when I plug in and out the ethernet cable. Also nothing found about net, ip, broadcom.

What may I do?

Thank you for the help!

Last edited by vandeminek (2010-09-22 13:48:32)

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [SOLVED] BCM57760 don't work with Arch for me

What's in dmesg when you load the tg3 driver?

Dogmeat

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From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: [SOLVED] BCM57760 don't work with Arch for me

I have on a laptop an ethernet card Broadcom BCM57780 which doesn't work with tg3 module alone. You have to rmmod tg3 and then modprobe broadcom and after that tg3. Then eth0 interface should show up and work. Also add to your MODULES=(... broadcom tg3 ...)

vandeminek

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Registered: 2010-09-22

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] BCM57760 don't work with Arch for me

$ dmesg | grep tg3

tg3.c:v3.16 (January 12, 2010)
tg3 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ16
tg3 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
tg3 mdio bus: probed
eth%d: no PHY devices
tg3: Problem fetching invariants of chip, aborting.
tg3 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled

This is at startup time, when I manually reload the driver the "eth%d" row not in dmesg.

That maybe means that the two Broadcom chips could not work together? I will try other distros livecd-s, to determine that appears in other distros or just now for Arch.

Dogmeat

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From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: [SOLVED] BCM57760 don't work with Arch for me

As i said, you have to modprobe broadcom before tg3 to make BCM57760 work.

vandeminek

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Registered: 2010-09-22

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] BCM57760 don't work with Arch for me

Dogmeat: I tried this and it works thanks for the great solution!