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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Robby Zambito <contact@robbyzambito.me>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: No ethernet service during install
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 11:15:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YQgL+I4ln0fJ5KK2@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210802010631.yzaefdakduqzaokn@robby-Ryzen-RX-PC.localdomain>

On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 09:06:31PM -0400, Robby Zambito wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 05:03:13PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > That's unfortunate. Can you tell us what card it is? Ethernet (at least gigabit and slower) is usually supported by linux-libre, so I'm curious to know which card is missing support.
> 
> lspci says that it's a Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
> card.

Thanks for the details. Googling, I found some discussions about this
card, including this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/4wh3gu/is_the_broadcom_bcm5709_chipset_no_longer/

I believe this is the Linux configuration option / driver:

https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/BNX2.html

However, since it appears that this driver is not free software,
linux-libre will have disabled it and it won't be supported within GNU
Guix.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-02 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-01 14:31 No ethernet service during install Robby Zambito
2021-08-01 16:27 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-08-01 19:27   ` Robby Zambito
     [not found]     ` <947ccfaa-c844-41fa-a138-173c7ae1a928@www.fastmail.com>
2021-08-02  1:06       ` Robby Zambito
2021-08-02 15:15         ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-08-02 21:38           ` Philip McGrath

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