Dell PE800 NIC not recognized

[Vivek Khera]

On Dec 16, 2004, at 4:32 PM, Vivek Khera wrote:

> I just took delivery of a Dell PE800 tower server.  I installed 
> 5.3-RELEASE amd64 on it, but it is not finding any ethernet device 
> (there is one built into the mobo).
>
> 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".
>

For the archives, I just wanted to follow up to say that as of December 
17, 2004, 5-STABLE recognizes this chipset just fine.  Seems to be 
working great.