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Broadcom BCM5788
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1 3718 02-09-2006
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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


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Old 02-09-2006, 10:26 PM   #1
gilead
 
Registered: Dec 2005
Distribution: Slackware 12.0, Slackware 12.1
Posts: 3,697
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 5

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



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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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