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SubjectRe: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 04:41:13PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:33:39 +0100
>
> You can buy bcm57xx based boards, where the chipset is nice but the driver
> not really nice yet.
>
> My tg3 driver sucks then right? Could you send me a bug report?

As stated in the other mail to Jeff Garzik, I was talking about the bcm57xx
driver, _NOT_ about the new tg3. Sorry for not making this clear in the
original mail.

> The hardware is not capable of doing it, due to bugs in the hw
> checksum implementation of the sk98 chipset. They aren't being
> "slow" they just can't possibly implement it for you.

Ouch. Thanks for dropping me this note.

> David S. Miller

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