fai and broadcom 5700 nic

[John Zaitz]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:40:53PM +0200, Jacob Weismann Poulsen wrote:
> * John Zaitz <jzaitz at works.com> [2003-08-01 07:59]:
> > Just as an update for anyone else who might be using the broadcom card. 
> > It turns out that the tigon3 driver in 2.4.21 actually works. So now I 
> > have succesfully done a basic install using the broadcom card.
> 
> VERY nice to know. Thanks.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:16:20PM -0500, John Zaitz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > First I must say that FAI is a wonderful piece of software and, although 
> > > I have just started using it, I can see its power for setting up groups of hardware.
> > > 
> > > I have just received some new Dell 1750's with the BroadCom NetXtreme 
> > > onboard gigiabit nics and am attempting to rebuild a kernel with the broadcom 
> > > drivers compiled in rather than as a module for use as the fai kernel. 
> 
> I haven't try to use their kernel-patch but I have successfully made an
> initrd solution where I load their module before mounting the nfsroot.
> If you still care I can mail you the details.

Yes I would be interested. 

thanks

> 
> Jacob
> 

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