Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ben Higginbottom wrote:

> On 5/31/05, Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Google is your friend here.
> 
> As allways :-)
> 
> > 
> > The short version is that, while the cards themselves are actually
> > pretty good, the company that owns the rights to the technology
> > (Broadcom, formerly Altima), isn't considered exactly 'Linux friendly'.
> > They sort-of made their driver, the bcm7500 or whatever, available but
> > it's generally considered terrible.  An Open Source effort, the tg3
> > ('Tigon III'), is available.  It works OK but not great, with LOTS of
> > caveats.
> > 
> 
> 
> Certainly, but I need the cards to just work and stop locking up in
> the early hours of the morning, if the 5700 does that, then thats the
> one that goes in.

I think you misunderstood me - use the tg3 driver, no doubt.  If it 
locks up with that driver, contact the authors, they may be able to help 
you.  I wouldn't use the bcm driver, no way.

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Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>