On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Michel Jouvin wrote:

> Not sure about what is 5271 exactly. But we just worked out a problem with 
> last 57xx (PCI Express based) generation (on an IBM x326m) on SL4.2. 
> Basically we just added the driver to initrd.
>
> I made one test with SL 3.05 this morning, using the same workaround, but I 
> didn't succeed. I had not time to troubleshoot this problem, may be just a 
> mistake when updating initrd or building the driver.

We have plenty of Dell machines (Optiplex GX280, GX620 etc) which have the 
Broadcom BCM5751 chipset over PCI-E, and these work fine with the tg3 
driver in SL305 (no fiddling with the initrd is needed here).

Now the boards with PCI-E Marvel-Yukon chipsets (e.g. some Intel mboards) 
are a different matter...

  -- Jon