4.8-RELEASE: Gigabit Ethernet support on Dell PowerEdge 1750

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Konrad Heuer wrote:

> I've three DELL PE 2650 running with 4.8-R; the Broadcom cards work fine.
> While booting, the kernel reports:
>
Hi!

The 2650 use an older version of the Broadcom chips than the 1750, with
different PCI ID.

> Are you sure the NICs aren't disabled in the BIOS setup? Sorry for using
> the word 'Linux', but I'm not fanatic. Maybe you could try to boot a Linux
> kernel from CD (Knoppix or so?) and watch what happens?
>
Knoppix 3.2 recognizes them fine.


For the archives:
Solution: Upgrade to 4.9-pre or later, support has been merged in some
weeks before 4.9-pre.

HTH
Olaf

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