Bug 139398

Summary: Where is Broadcom 5700 nic driver for Dell 725N Nas system
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: U. George <gatgul>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description U. George 2004-11-15 20:00:02 UTC
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Description of problem:
Tried installing FC2 via the PXE boot schema. List of NIC devices does
not include the broadcom NIC driver for the dell 725N NAS gizmo. For
RH9, I was able to incorporate the driver source from broadcom, and
get it to go.
Due to a Java Threads ( missing/lost event ) issue, i am forced to
abandon RH9. 

anything happening with the source/driver code from broadcom? 



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.try PXE install on a DELL 725N Nas appliance
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Comment 1 U. George 2004-11-16 13:46:59 UTC
from what I can gather from the tg3 nic driver, it appears that the
broadcom 5704 nic is supported - albeit not to the degree where the
tg3 driver is actually usefull. The major/minor PCI codes are in the
tg3 driver. 
The tg3 driver just does not recognise the device. 

The tg3 driver also failed to recognise the NIC's under RH9. 

I suppose I now have to consider this a bug, rather that a feature
request. 

Comment 2 Dave Jones 2005-04-16 05:50:48 UTC
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be
provided by Red Hat.  The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel
updates for security problems only.

If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please
try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the
product version accordingly.

Thank you.