Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

Jes Sorensen
2002-02-26T20:09:55Z

Jason Lunz <j@trellisinc.com> writes:

> In mlist.linux-kernel, you wrote:
> > Cuz the driver is a piece of crap, and BroadCom isn't interested in
> > working with the open source community to fix up the issues.
>
> Can you elaborate? What are the issues? I've found the broadcomm driver
> to be more robust than the in-kernel one for acenic cards. With acenic,
> I've had a null-pointer deref on SMP and other lockups where I wasn't
> lucky enough to get an oops.

Ehm, it would be nice to get some more details on this. Few people
have reported problems with the acenic driver for a long time, except
for certain highmem configs and a problem with very old Tigon I cards.

Jes