Module support for Broadcom ethernet

Bogdan Rotariu bogdan at alterox.ro
Wed Apr 27 19:05:21 UTC 2005


Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I notice that the module that supports the Broadcom 5700 chip is  
> tg3.ko, rather than bcm/bcm5700.ko, which is what you get when you  
> build from the standard kernel sources (i.e., not rpm source).
> 
> Anyone know the reason for this?
> 

tg3.c: Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver.

	I dont know from where you have bcm5700 included in vanilla kernels 
(without any patch), but I dont have.
	The standard broadcom driver is tg3.


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