Installing on Xserve

[nathan r. hruby]

I didn't catch the head of this thread...

On 24 Jan 2003, Dan Burcaw wrote:

> 
> > > **** At this time we do not support the Xserve's external ethernet card. 
> > 
> > Wonder why?  Support for Broadcom Tigon3 (external Ethernet) in the
> > standard 2.4.20 kernel is quite complete.  It would work out of the box
> > if it weren't for the fact that Apple decided to give their card a
> > different PCI ID from the standard one - that isn't recognized by the
> > driver.  All that's needed is to let the driver recognize this new ID. 
> > The (very simple) changes are there in BenH's 2.4 ppc development tree.
> 

The Broadcom NIC's are tempermental beasts.  Browse through the 
linux-poweredge list at lists.us.dell.com and you'll see many a cranky 
user with 8-way 6450's bitching about the instability of the tg3 and 
bcm5700 drivers and having to add e1000's to their machine just to get 
uptime of more than a few days.  (I have e100's in my 1550 and am really 
happy :)

RedHat is working on the tg3 driver but it's not all there, even for 
ia32.  See Jeff Garzik's (sp?) aragorn{1,2} kernels based on the the 
latest RH-8+tg3 fixes.

-n
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