Gigabit Ethernet cards?

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Thu Jun 10 13:46:00 EDT 2004


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>>There's also the Broadcom (tg3) devices which seem to work okay.
>>Newer IBM servers are coming with them instead of the e1000.
>
> FWIW, I was installing Debian on a newish HP box
> at work last year that had a nice Broadcom gigE on
> the motherboard but the "normal" Broadcom driver
> couldn't handle it.  I can't quite remember why but I
> think it's because the older Broadcom chipsets were
> compatible with (I think it's) the Tigon3 interface
> model but that newer BCM5782 chipset was different
> enough that the Debian driver choked.

I'm running redhat 9.0 with the BCM5787 chip.  The driver comes as an SRPM
that compiles nicely.  It's working well for me at 100Mbit.





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