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Broadcom BCM5788

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
1	24870	02-09-2006

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	None indicated	5.0

Description:	Works with APCI disabled, with most dist. Driver: works with both tg3 and bcm5700. Tried with Fedora Core 2 and Mepis. Hint: If you have trouble starting up LAN in Mepis 2.6.7+, use following parameters: pci=noacpi noapic acpi=off In Fedora Core 2 2.6.7+ use the following: apci=off noapic
Keywords:	bcm57xx broadcom apci noapic tg3 bcm5700 LAN
/sbin/lspci output:	0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
Connection Type:	Rj45 10/100/1000

Author

02-09-2006, 09:26 PM

gilead

Registered: Dec 2005

Distribution: Slackware64 13.37

Posts: 4,084

Rep:

Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 5

Kernel (uname -r):	2.6.15.3
Distribution:	Slackware 10.2

I couldn't get the card to work at first - then I found this site. The description above about needing to disable APCI should read APIC, but it did the trick.

The card is slow to acquire an address using DHCP but is stable and fast.

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