I have a PowerEdge SC440 that came with Windows server installed. We put Fedora Core 5 on the box to do some testing with linux. We had a problem with the video which we got past. But now I cannot get the nic card to work. I tried going to the broadcom site and pulling down rpm driver updates but it gives me an error when I try to run install them. Dell does not list a linux driver for the SC440 so it appears it is not supported. Anybody have any luck with this?
I'm a newbie with linux so when I dont know how to do my own build of a driver. Just hoping for an RPM that I can use. Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks.
I am in the same boat. Ubuntu recognizes it but Suse does not. Ubuntu is a pita to set up as a server though. I will probably just put in a 3com nic and be done with it. Please keep me posted on your progress. Hint: For Linux especially, forums are your friend.
Contacted Dell Tech Support. They were very helpful but still couldn't get it to work. . Anyway, the tech tried to help me even though I was asking for support on a non supported OS. He sent me linux drivers for the nic card that came with the system - Broadcom TG3 rpm. These installed OK but did not get card to work either.
Found an old 3com 3c905b nic in the garage and thought I'd give it a try. Dusted it off, popped it in and it worked like a champ. Good ol 3com, this card is probably 10 years old!
I got mine to work by downloading the tg3 module from Broadcom. I used an external usb floppy and put it on the server. I had to install gcc and make to compile it. Made it loaded it and installed it. Kind of a pain but it works. Am thinking of putting another nic in to separate internal and external services.
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