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El vie, 01 de oct de 2004, a las 10:15, Peter Mueller escribio:
> > Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
>
> E.g.,
> http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pes_linux&mess
> age.id=1520
> http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&cl
> ient=firefox-a&q=noapic+poweredge+tg3&btnG=Search
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-February/023510.html
> (later in this thread Jeff Garzik writes):
> Basically what I said above :) 2.4.19 tg3 is "mostly ok", but severe
> stress on the NIC _could_ tickle hardware bugs. In practice this is
> very rare. 2.4.20 tg3 has the NAPI deadlock only recently solved
> in the "legolas4" kernel. These tg3 fixes will be available in
> 2.4.21-pre5, when it is released, and also posted on my web page.
>
> But people have still reported problems! Save yourself a headache and get an
> e1000. No, I don't work for Intel or own stock in them ;-).
I got 3 fujitsu servers weeks ago, and it was unusable with tg3, due
to continuos crashes, and net problems in it.
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
0000:02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
Reading the docs included in the cdrom, found that the tg3 driver is not
recommended, and found in the cdrom a linux driver from broadcom
(bcm5700-7.1.9), the next text is from the docs included with the driver:
:Many newer distributions and newer kernels may already contain and use the
:tg3 driver by default for Broadcom BCM5700 series devices. While tg3 is a fully
:functioning driver written by Red Hat, Broadcom recommends users to use
:the bcm5700 driver written and tested by Broadcom.
Regards,
Carlos.
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