Dell 2950 & Ubuntu

[Glenn_Crawford at redcliffe.qld.gov.au]

Greetings all,

Has anyone tried and been successful at getting Ubuntu installed and 
running on a Dell 2950?

I have managed to get it installed on to the HDD, however it does not / 
cannot see the network card.

They are Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC's.

When I try a 'lspci' I get the following:

# lspci | grep -i broad
PCI bridge: Broadcom: Unknown device 0103 (rev c2)
Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 164c (rev 11)

I have tried manually updating the pci.ids file (dunno if this is 
recommended or not) but that does not appear to change anything.

Dell supplies drivers for Redhat ES, SUSE ES, "and others",  It is a DKMS 
RPM - does this mean anything to anyone?

One of the RPM's supplied is the source, but I am not familiar enough with 
compiling to figure out what needs to be adjusted to get it to compile on 
Ubuntu...

Any help would be appreciated.


Glenn Crawford



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