Re: broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit

[Tom Sightler <ttsig tuxyturvy com>]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 10:23 -0700, Stephen Mah wrote:
> Has anyone been able to get this card working on rhel4?
> I ran "lspci" and typically a card is shown even if it's not in the Red 
> Hat hardware list.
> It doesn't even show up as an "unknown" device.
> Strange thing is that it's an onboard device.

Sure, I have plenty of them working in the field.

If you are not seeing the device at all on the PCI bus then it is likely
a PCI enumeration error.  Many times onboard controllers are on a
different PCI bus from the slots or other devices, for example, on my
Dell 2650's the Broadcom adapters are on PCI bus 4.

Usually problems with PCI bus enumeration are related to buggy BIOS not
properly reporting their information in ACPI.  Many times a BIOS upgrade
will fix these issue or you can try booting with acpi=off or pci=noacpi.

We could probably be of more help if you mentioned the name of the
system board and posted the output of lspci -vv and perhaps posted dmesg
output.

Later,
Tom