Recommendation for Gigabit Ethernet on ibex please

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Ben Edwards wrote:
> Do you get full speeds?  did it work out of the box?
> 
> Regards,
> Ben
> 
> 2008/12/9 Carl Friis-Hansen <ubuntuuser at carl-fh.com>:
>> Ben Edwards wrote:
>>> Have done some googeling for the above without much luck.  All I have
>>> found is Realtek seem (I got a couple of RTL-8169 and cant get them
>>> working) to be a bad idea and Broadcom work (not sure which models).
>> I have a number of HP Proliant ML-115 boxes with 8.04 on. They were
>> fitted with an extra Ethernet card. Both the build-in and the extra card
>> is working fine in 8.04.
>>
>> carl at cjfhs12:~$ lspci | grep ther
>> 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet
>> Adapter (rev 10)
>> 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721
>> Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21)
>> carl at cjfhs12:~$
>>
>> I can dig up more info if needed.

According to the list
http://hardware4linux.info/type/34/
The DGE-528T is green and tested on Ubuntu 7.04.
The BCM5721, which is on the motherboard by me, is also green, but not 
tested on Ubuntu.
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