Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Ben Higginbottom <benh.suse@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

> As for the tg3 on Dell equipment, like I said, Google is your friend
> here - nobody likes the tg3 on Dell, and most people have had problems
> with them, and neither Dell nor Broadcom are going to do anything about
> it.

Hell, personally I dont like Dell equipment, but you've got to work
with what you've got.

Regards,

Ben