Anyone have Tyan S2880 (Dual Opteron) and got the onboard broadcom adapters working?

[Samuel Flory]

Charles Jones wrote:
> Kernel 2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1smp
> Tyan S2880 Motherboard
> 
> I've tried the tg3 module, I've downloaded the bcm5700 module from Tyans 
> site and tried it too.  Neither of them detect the dual onboard GigE 
> adapters. I've made sure the adapters are enabled in the BIOS, I've 
> tried booting with acpi=off, etc...I even removed all the PCI cards from 
> the machine to ensure there are no conflicts. I'm running out of ideas, 
> does anyone have this board and gotten the broadcom adapters working?  
> If anyone has any suggestions I would be glad to consider them as well.
> 
> 

   It should use the tg3 module.  I've done much with the 2880 lately as 
the 2881, and 2882 are more interesting.  Try updating the the latest 
bios, and send us the output of lspci -v, and dmesg after modprobe tg3.

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