[rhn-users] RHEL 3.0 and Broadcom BCM5704

[Daniel Wittenberg]

I have seen it once when changing interface speeds from 100/half to
100/full that the interface locked up and had to go visit the machine.
But 99% of the time it works great.

Dan

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 17:08 -0500, Charith Perera wrote:
> 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.
> 
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> 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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Daniel Wittenberg
RHCE/IBM Certified Specialist
President/CTO
The Starken Group
http://www.starken.com
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