On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 08:23, Daniel Hedblom wrote: > Hi! > > I have a bit of a hard time with a Broadcom 5700 nic. It isnt supported by > etherboot or rom-o-matic but there is a gpl driver on the broadcom > homepage. Does anyone know howto add a nic driver to a running system? I > must be doing it wrong somehow. Right now my boss keeps me between a rock > and a hard place. > > Cheers! > > Daniel
There is a Broadcom 5700 driver available at the usual place :-) It is also supported by the tg3 driver which is part of most of the kernel releases i've seen. So a 'modprobe tg3' should do the trick. The autodetect during LTSP/PXE boot is a different thing; for that you will have to rebuild the initrd supplied with the kernel. - startup the 'broadcom' machine - do a 'scanpci' (comes with X), lookup your NIC and note the number for device and vendor - download the ltsp_initrd_kit - yank a tg3-line in the 'niclist' and replace the device an vendor ID - rebuild the initrd and replace the 'old' initrd. It worked for me..... Regards, Simon ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
