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

Samuel Flory sflory at rackable.com
Fri Mar 19 23:52:17 UTC 2004


Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 04:52:11PM -0700, 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 
> 
> 
> Does Fedora not configure this interface automatically? If not, please send
> me an lspci -v and and lspci -n.  I will add things to hwdata so that we do
> not have this problem with FC2 at least.
> 

   Having seen his lscpi output part of the problem is the nics aren't 
in it.  Either the board is broken or the resource routing is really 
screwed up.

> In the meantime, there were some issues initially with this board, which
> were fixed by BIOS upgrades, but I do not think this is a result.



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