Dell Optiplex 745 - Broadcom 5754 NIC

[ubuntu at wheatonma.edu]

Chris,

I heard back from my end user about the suggestions you mentioned 
regarding the Broadcom 5754 NIC, below is his response. Any suggestions 
you could offer would be greatly appreciated.


I ran these commands....
sudo modprobe tg3
doesn't choke, but ifconfig doesn't change - eth0 does not appear. And
ifconfig eth0
says device not found.

This is very strange, as tg3.ko is where you said it is, and seems to be 
ok, in that in loading it, nothing bad happens.

I also added it at the end of the /etc/modules file to see if rebooting 
would do it.  Nope.

one more thing: I'm currently running 7.04 Feisty Fawn Alternate, hoping 
that that version would have more drivers.  I can re-install regular 
Feisty Fawn 7.04 if that would help.

Chris Malton wrote:
> 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
>>
>>   
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