[CentOS] CentOS 3 / tg3 driver on an HS20 Blade

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Wed, 18 May 2005 at 5:08pm, Brendon Colby wrote

> I know it's been mentioned before that the tg3 driver in CentOS 3.4 is 
> buggy. I had to revert to 3.4 today from 4 (fresh install) and now I 
> have no link and thus no network. I'm wondering if this is caused by 
> this bug and what the work-around is.

I have to say here that if there's a bug here, it's not universal.  I have 
several Opteron boxes with Arima HDAMA motherboards, and have not had any 
issues with the tg3 driver.  lspci says that they're "Ethernet controller: 
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)".

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University