Re: could not find the NIC (for a dell poweredge1950)

This is pretty common with embedded broadcom NICs.  The bnx2 driver 
tends to work better than the tigon (tg3) driver anyway, even outside of 
OpenSSI.

Best~
-d

Maurice Libes wrote:
>>
>> loading tg3.o module
>> /lib/tg3.o: init_module: no such device
>> Could not find the NIC used to add this node to the cluster...unable 
>> to continue
>>
>> i dont understand why this tg3.o module embedded in the initrd file 
>> works for some node and don't work for this new node
>>
>> what can i do? thanks for any help
>>
>> does anybody have a dell poweredge 1950 in its ssi cluster?
>>
> 
> 
> thanks to my friend fred augier, who found that the NIC on the poweredge 
> 1950 is Broadcom® NetXtreme II chipset 5708.
> 
> the good ethernet driver for this chipset is not tg3.o but  bnx2.o and 
> can be downloaded here
> 
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php
> and it works fine
> 
> 
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