Dell Optiplex 745 - Broadcom 5754 NIC

[Chris Malton]

Hi,
    According to the modules listings, the Feisty (7.04) version ought 
to work.

If you manually type " sudo modprobe tg3" <enter> on Feisty in a 
Terminal window, followed by "ifconfig" <enter> you should get the 
device loaded.

To load it every time, you need to add it to the end of the file 
"/etc/modules". Don't forget that the last line of "/etc/modules" must 
be blank!

If you have no success manually loading the tg3 driver, let us know and 
we'll try to help you get it working.

Chris


ubuntu at wheatonma.edu wrote:
> 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
>
>