On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:14:01PM +0800, Aris  Santillan wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> It seems Debian Sarge cant detect Broadcom nextreme during the installation
> 
> what must i do?

You need to rebuild your kernel with either the tg3 network driver or
get the official open source drivers from Broadcom and build it
according to the instructions (recommended).  The tg3 driver, in 2.4
kernels at least, has serious stability issues last time I tried to use
it.  Look here:

http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php

If you are doing this on an enterprise box that uses the Broadcom
Gig-E chipsets (e.g. an HP Proliant or IBM xSeries), it may be
preferable to use something like WBEL or CentOS rather than Debian
Sarge, and use the officially supported drivers for the corresponding
Red Hat Enterprise version.  Even though HP or IBM won't support you on
this, you at least have the assurance that they've vetted the drivers
you're using on that hardware, and have a better chance of getting a
more stable system.

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