Broadcom 5788 gige chip support

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Thu Sep 25 09:37:45 PDT 2003


On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Will Saxon wrote:

> Does anyone know if this will 'just work' with the bge driver? The
> manpage indicates bge is for 570x devices. I think the 5788 is very new
> (new enough not to be listed on the Broadcom website) so I am not able
> to determine if it is even remotely similar.
>
> I may be working with a couple of motherboards that use this chip for
> onboard gige, so if there is no support I will need to purchase a
> different board or an additional network controller.

You probably want to anyway; the broadcom gige chips have been a disaster.
Go get a nice Intel.

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