[ydl-gen] ethernet card not found after kernel modification

[Nick Jones]

Hi, I'm looking for some help getting the XServe ethernet cards
working.  I'm having network card troubles.  The network adapters work
fine with the default kernel that installs with YDL 4.1 cd's.

I followed the instructions at
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_4.0/RAID/
to modify the kernel to support the Apple Fibre Channel PCI card.  The
differences are I'm using a 2.6 kernel, so the menuconfig options are
a little different, there is no config.in, and I did not strip the
kernel before making modules.

It worked great and the RAID is seen now by the hardware browser.
However, the ethernet devices are giving me strange errors.  I get tg3
device not present, delaying initialization when I try to activate the
interface.   lspci sees the devices, and switching which interface is
associated with which device makes no difference.

I am using the kernel smp sources from the cd, and then using the
default g5-smp config under the configs directory and not changing
anything (just to test).   This fails with the same error tg3 device
not present.
Steps to reproduce.
1. Install G5-smp kernel source from 4.1 cd's after installing 4.1 on
an XServe G5
2. Run cp /usr/src/kernel-src-g5-smp/configs/g5-smpconfig
/usr/src/kernel-src-g5-smp/.config
3. make vmlinux
4. make modules
5. cp vmlinux and System.map to corresponding /boot files and reboot
with this kernel
Network cards not recognized.

What config option could I try?

Any ideas??

Thanks alot.

Nick


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Nick Jones
University of Iowa
Dept of Neurology
Systems Analyst
319-356-0451