Re: Support for BCM5704

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Ok, so I found the 2.5.40 kernel that has support for
BCM5704. However, the same problem continutes to
occur. The system does not complete network boot. Any
clues?


--- Manish Lachwani <m_lachwani@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi ALL,
> 
> I am using a Force 4203 with onboard BCM5704 Gige
> NICs. I am using their driver which is version
> 3.0.6.
> The system network boots properly. However, the
> speed
> of one NIC is set to PCIX 33 MHZ instead of 133 MHZ.
> Another problem is that when I send requests from a
> client over NFS, the NIC does not accept the
> packets.
> This is NFS over UDP. 
> 
> So, I tried out 2.5.33 kernel and the tg3 driver.
> This
> initialized the NIC properly. However, the NIC does
> not complete network boot,i.e. it loses
> communication
> with the server running DHCP. 
> 
> Any idea if there is a driver having support for
> BCM5704?
> 
> Thanks
> manish
> 
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