Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 89131
addon/5700 is very very old
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:52 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020913 Description of problem: current driver version of bcm5700 is v6.0.2 (02/14/03) and redhat brings a prehistoric version v2.0.28 (11/05/01), which is very buggy and unreliable Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> is the maintainer Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.- 2.- 3.- Additional info:
we prefer the tg3 driver instead for this hardware.
I know that tg3 is official kernel driver but if you put an 'addon' almost must be a recent release.
and look like that tg3 is not supported by all hardware vendors: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/partner/linux/readme/bcm5700.shtm --cut-- [...] Newer Linux kernels contain an independent native driver for this adapter called tg3.o. The tg3.o driver is unsupported and untested by Fujitsu Siemens Computers. To use bcm5700.o instead of tg3.o, replace tg3 with bcm5700 in alias lines in /etc/modules.conf. [...] --end-- and this is a real problem -thanks-
Now tg3 has support for all broadcom&clones, bcm5700 is fruitless. For reference, latest bcm lives at: http://www.broadcom.com/docs/driver-download.html