Broadcom NIC cards (bcm57xx) = DEVIL
Broadcom NIC cards are the devil. If you have an option to use another NIC, do so. I've spent well over 2 weeks working w/ Dell and Novell attempting to get the Broadcam cards to maintain their network connectivity, with no luck. rn
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 10:54 am, Ryan McCain wrote:
Broadcom NIC cards are the devil. If you have an option to use another NIC, do so. I've spent well over 2 weeks working w/ Dell and Novell attempting to get the Broadcam cards to maintain their network connectivity, with no luck.
Ryan, which cards are you using? What kind of problem are you having? I have a Dell laptop with thier wireless card installed - My hardware info lists it as the BCM94306- and it runs beautifully using both the ndiswrapper and linuxant wrappers. Although I have yet to get the damn thing to work right with XP. Linux was a no brainer. ra -- Old age ain't for Sissies!
I think you have a motherboard issue then. I have several of these working and I can push the full gig through them without any issues. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:54, Ryan McCain wrote:
Broadcom NIC cards are the devil. If you have an option to use another NIC, do so. I've spent well over 2 weeks working w/ Dell and Novell attempting to get the Broadcam cards to maintain their network connectivity, with no luck.
rn
Ryan McCain wrote:
Broadcom NIC cards are the devil. If you have an option to use another NIC, do so. I've spent well over 2 weeks working w/ Dell and Novell attempting to get the Broadcam cards to maintain their network connectivity, with no luck.
rn
I have a BCM5788 running on 9.2 (upgraded from 9.1) on a x86_64 laptop, it uses the tg3 driver, some cards use the b44 driver. When I first installed 9.1, it used the b44 driver automatically and I had problems with network stalls, changed to the tg3 and it's never missed a beat since. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
Ryan McCain
Broadcom NIC cards are the devil.
There are problems with Ethernet network cards (PCI) in the 2.6 kernel in general. For instance now I'm compiling the 2.6.8-24 kernel from 9.2 to use with 9.1 because I haven't managed to get any of the following cards working on a dual CPU Tiger 230 T: 3c905B, 3c905C, Intel Ethernet Pro 100 (e100) . Modules were loaded OK but ifconfig reported a large percentage of errors or the cards didn't work at all. Even the "safe kernel options" (acpi=off nosmp ...) didn't help. With 9.2 and "acpi=off apm=off barrier=off noapic" I get full speed but "acpi=off" means I cannot switch off the machines remotely. I think that Novell should publish a frequently updated compatibility list with workarounds till 2.6 stabilizes. The hardware database doesn't help much since these problems probably appear with some chipsets only. -- A.M.
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Alexandr Malusek
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Brad Dameron
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Richard
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Ryan McCain
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Sid Boyce