Dell Optiplex 745 - Broadcom 5754 NIC

[ubuntu at wheatonma.edu]

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