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Ard Righ
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 Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:30 am Post subject: BCM5700 driver patch vs TIGON3 driver in 2.6.7 kernel ?? |
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I noticed that the gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7-r6 do not include the BCM5700 driver patch that was in 2.6.5 
I was wondering, what is the big debate over these drivers ? One group says the other driver has bugs, and vice versa. All the searching on google brings up threads from last year
Can we get a patch for BMC5700 driver added to gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7 ?  |
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ectospasm
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:50 am Post subject: |
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From what I understand is that the tigon3 is community supported, and you should only use the BCM5700 driver if the tg3 driver does not work. From the AMD64 Technotes:
| Quote: | | Many Opteron motherboards come with a built-in on-board network chip manufactured by Broadcom. We have provided both the standard in-kernel tg3 driver as well as the bcm5700 driver to support this card. The tg3 driver should be used if possible, as it is community-supported, and the bcm5700 driver only exists to aide those who have trouble with tg3. |
This may or may not still be the case, and I use the tg3 driver because it works fine for me.
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Ard Righ
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| Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| OK cheers. I haven't bothered to check if there are any connection issues - it's working at the moment, which is enough |
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