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@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 Internet Explorer is fine for downloading Firefox, but after that....