Re: How to add NIC driver

Paul Gray wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2004, Jimmy Gibson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have the following network card in my PC
>>
>>Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5782 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
> 
> 
> The tg3 driver should work for that.  If it's on the BBC, you'll want to
> configure it through the "specify" option of trivial-net-setup.  It's not
> listed among the selected drivers, nor is it autoloaded.

I'm just starting out with the BBC/gar system so please forgive my 
ignorance, but how do I specify that I want to use the tg3 driver?

> 
> However, I don't recall if the tg3 is on the 2.1 image (it should be, it's
> been in the kernel tree since 2.4.16).
> 

There are tg3.h and tg3.c in the kernel subtree so hopefully they'll be 
there.   If not I suppose I'll have to do a complete system build?

Thanks for the info.

Jimmy