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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