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Re: [SLE] tg3 Drivers for Broadcom Network Cards on Dell 2650 and 6650 Servers.
- From: Michael James <Michael.James@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 10:53:12 +1000
- Message-id: <200506011053.12695.Michael.James@xxxxxxxx>
On Tue, 31 May 2005 10:29 pm, Ben Higginbottom wrote:
> Has anyone had any recent issues with the tg3 driver on the hardware
> of either of these servers (all running various revisions of the 2.4
> kernel). specifically with auto negotiation and crashes caused by it.
> Or is the bcm5700 driver still the better option?
I've still got a cluster of 66 machines
using the tg3 drivers without problems.
All versions of Suse Pro from 8.1 on.
> Alternatively am I better off ripping out the cards and sticking in
> something that uses the e1000 driver.
On the PE2650s it's on the motherboard.
but when Dell sold me Dual Intel cards for AU$150 each
I happily walked away from the 2650 broadcoms,
although they hadn't caused me any real grief.
I read about lots of people (mainly redhat users) having lots of grief
on the Dell list, that seems to have died down though.
FWIW,
michaelj
--
Michael James michael.james@xxxxxxxx
System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040
CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
Internet Explorer is fine for downloading Firefox,
but after that....
> Has anyone had any recent issues with the tg3 driver on the hardware
> of either of these servers (all running various revisions of the 2.4
> kernel). specifically with auto negotiation and crashes caused by it.
> Or is the bcm5700 driver still the better option?
I've still got a cluster of 66 machines
using the tg3 drivers without problems.
All versions of Suse Pro from 8.1 on.
> Alternatively am I better off ripping out the cards and sticking in
> something that uses the e1000 driver.
On the PE2650s it's on the motherboard.
but when Dell sold me Dual Intel cards for AU$150 each
I happily walked away from the 2650 broadcoms,
although they hadn't caused me any real grief.
I read about lots of people (mainly redhat users) having lots of grief
on the Dell list, that seems to have died down though.
FWIW,
michaelj
--
Michael James michael.james@xxxxxxxx
System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040
CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
Internet Explorer is fine for downloading Firefox,
but after that....
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