Dell PE800 NIC not recognized

Vivek Khera vivek at khera.org
Fri Dec 17 06:49:49 PST 2004


On Dec 17, 2004, at 3:44 AM, dima wrote:

>> According to the Dell PE800 spec sheet
>> (http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/800_specs.pdf)
>> it is a "Single embedded Broadcom 5721 Gigabit Ethernet controller".
> 570x series are surely supported. I tried those ones & they work quite 
> ok. I have no idea if 572x are similar enough though.
>

I checked the bge source and the 5721 is not listed.  I just sent to 
Paul Saab the pciconf -l output.  I was booting the generic kernel, 
which certainly does have bge driver in it.  I have many other boxes 
with the 570x chips in them which work just fine.

Thanks for your help.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806



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