Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:17:52 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Broadcom 10/100/1000 network cards and linux |
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:13:05AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:37:06PM -0600, Ognen Duzlevski wrote: > > > Hi, there was some discussion here in the past on the bugginess of the > > driver for the Broadcom 5702 Gb (10/100/1000) network cadrs (shipped > > mostly with Compaq/HP boxes as standard item). Is this still an issue or > > have the problems been resolved? Is this network card fully supported > > under Linux 2.4.x and 2.5.x? > > It should be supported with the tg3 driver included in 2.4.20. > > This driver should work OK.
Unfortunately this driver is missing several workarounds for hardware bugs :/ This affects all chips, bcm5700 - bcm5704.
One should grab tg3 from 2.4.21-pre4 patch... or the latest Marcelo repository.
Jeff
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