Gigabit Ethernet cards?

[Michael ODonnell]

>> 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.


Yeah, after you mentioned that I said:

   apt-cache search broadcom

...and it said:

   bcm4400-source - module source for Broadcom's bcm4400 ethernet driver
   bcm5700-source - module source for Broadcom's bcm5700 ethernet driver

...so it's apparently now in the Debian repositories, as well.  Cool.