NIC Cards

[OOzy Pal]

On 4/30/06, Brendon <brendontoogood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:11:49 +0300, you wrote:
>
> > My card is built-in my motherboard is a Gigabyte 915G (81915G Duo).
> > The built-in NIC is NetLink BCM5789 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express.
> >
> > I have few questions?
> >
> > 1. Anybody know if this NIC compatible with Ubuntu?
> > 2. This card is 10/100/1000 and I have 256K DSL? Does it make a
> > difference if I switch to one of the 10/100 NIC?
> > 3. If item 1 above is OK, how can I install this NIC?
> >
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --
> > OOzy
> i just had a look on the net and found this on the net i am not sure about
> ubuntu but this card seems to work on linux well a different distro
> this is what it said about your nic card
> Broadcom NetLink BCM5789 Gigabit Ethernet - Use Tigon3 tg3 module.
>
> http://hell.jedicoder.net/?p=30
> it won't make difference if you switch to a 10/100 i am running it on that
> and a friend of mine is running a gigabit ethernet card and he can't tell
> the differance between the speed wise so if a 10/100 works i'd say use
> that.
>
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>
>
> .....
>    brendon
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I found the driver but it is for the RPM distros.

http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php

How can I install it in .deb?
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OOzy