[rhn-users] RHEL 3.0 and Broadcom BCM5704

[Charith Perera]

That gives me enough reason not to try it remotely.

Thanks.

Charith.


On Monday 10 January 2005 5:27 pm, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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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