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Re: Broadcom 5700 NIC on debian stable (woody)?



Thus spake Steinar Bang:
> It's Compaq^H^H^H^H^H^HHP.
> 
> They have official drivers for SuSE and RedHat, which are probably the
> same as this one:
> 	http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/bcm5700-source.html
> 
> >From what I've read when googling, and from what the above page
> states, 2.4.20 and tg3 sounds like the better alternative.

The version in Debian is roughly the same version that Redhat
includes... which is _quite_ a bit older than the version you can
download from Compaq/HP.  (2.x versus 6.x)... but yes, the easiest path
is to just use the tg3 driver :-)

-- 
Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net>

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not
worth knowing. -H. L. Mencken



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