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Alteon AceNIC Tigon I/II Ethernet controllers

This page describes how to enable support for AceNIC Ethernet controllers on Debian systems.

acenic is a driver for Alteon AceNIC Tigon I and II gigabit Ethernet controllers, included in the mainline Linux kernel. Supported devices are listed at the end of this page.

In linux-2.6 2.6.23-1, the binary-only firmware for this driver was removed (see the package changelog), due to discovered firmware licensing issues. The driver was disabled at this time. It was re-enabled in linux-2.6 2.6.26-1 when the request_firmware patch was applied.1 Device firmware is not packaged (517627).

{i} Broadcom Tigon3 Ethernet controllers are supported by the in-tree tg3 driver.

Installation

Firmware is required for device operation:

  1. Install the git package:

    # aptitude update && aptitude install git
    # exit
  2. Acquire the AceNIC Tigon firmware from the linux-firmware GIT tree:

    $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
  3. Install the firmware:

    $ su
    # mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/firmware/acenic
    # cp linux-firmware/acenic/{tg1,tg2}.bin /usr/local/lib/firmware/acenic
  4. Reload the acenic driver:

    # modprobe -r acenic ; modprobe acenic
  5. Configure your network interface, see NetworkConfiguration.

Supported Devices

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI explains how to identify a PCI device.

The following list is based on the alias fields of modinfo acenic in Debian 2.6.32 (2.6.32-41) kernel images.

  • PCI: 1011:001A Digital Equipment Corporation Farallon PN9000SX Gigabit Ethernet
    PCI: 10A9:0009 Silicon Graphics Intl. Corp. AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet
    PCI: 10B7:0001 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (SX/TX)
    PCI: 12AE:0001 Alteon Networks Inc. AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet
    PCI: 12AE:0002 Alteon Networks Inc. AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet (Copper)
    PCI: 12AE:00FA Alteon Networks Inc. Farallon PN9100-T Gigabit Ethernet
    PCI: 1385:620A Netgear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet
    PCI: 1385:630A Netgear GA630 Gigabit Ethernet

See Also


CategoryHardware