[rhn-users] RHEL 3.0 and Broadcom BCM5704

[Charith Perera]

Dan,

Thanks for the suggestions.

I looked up on the Broadcom and Dell websites earlier and found that they do 
offer the drivers as tarballs, however I was hoping that I could stick with 
one provided by RH due to ease of kernel upgrades etc. 

Do you know of, or have you experienced any negative side effects of using 
ethtool?

I'll give them both a try. Problem is that the server is at a remote location, 
so it won't be for a while.

Thanks again,

Charith.








On Monday 10 January 2005 4:50 pm, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> Try using the bcm5700 driver.  Most vendors provide this and recommend
> using it over tg3.  You can also use ethtool to try and force the card
> to gigabit.  I'm not sure how Dell supports the bcm cards, so not sure
> where to get the update (IBM provides and RPM that actually works with
> any hardware in case Dell doesn't have it).
>
> Dan
>
> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 16:48 -0500, Charith Perera wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We recently upgraded our switch to a gigabit one. All the machines appear
> > to be successfully communicating at 1000 Mbps without requiring a network
> > restart or system reboot. However, one machine, a Dell PE 1750 which has
> > a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet is still communicating at
> > 100Mbps. It's using the tg3 driver, which from my understanding has been
> > supporting gigabit ethernet cards for quite a while.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas what the problem may be? Does the network or
> > system need to be restarted? I doubt that as I assume the driver isn't
> > dependent on the network.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Charith Perera.
> >
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