[rhn-users] RHEL 3.0 and Broadcom BCM5704

[Daniel Wittenberg]

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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