Dell Optiplex 745 - Broadcom 5754 NIC
ubuntu at wheatonma.edu
ubuntu at wheatonma.edu
Wed Aug 8 01:57:26 UTC 2007
Hello all,
I am trying to help someone here get Kubuntu (6.06.1 or 7.04) working
with the builtin broadcom NIC inside a new Dell Optiplex 745. When we
run lspci it shows it as
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device
167a (rev 02)
I noticed underneath /lib/modules/kernel/.../.../net there already
existed a tg3.ko driver (that wasn't getting loaded). I tried
downloading and compiling the latest version of this driver but the
make process kept failing. I also tried to do this with the older
version of this driver (the bmc5700 one I believe is the name) from
Broadcom's site but the make failed the exact same way (complained
that a file or directory did not exist).
This was all within version 6.06.1. I had my end user download and
install 7.04 of Kubuntu this morning and it was reported that the same
thing is happening. ARGHH!!!
When I had it at version 6.06.1 I tried using insmod to load the
existing tg3.ko driver and it did appear when I ran lsmod but when I
tried to restart the network scripts it just complained that there was
no eth0 device.
Has anyone got this working? Or... can you suggest a half height PCI
card we could install in the Dell that Kubuntu would recognize and we
could disable the onboard card?
Thanks
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