RH7.2 & Broadcom 5700 NICs

["Robert L. Felt" <bob paradigm-pubs com>]

Hello,
Here is the situation:
I've installed the rpm's for the Broadcom NICs in the Dell 2650 as downloaded 
from Dell. The rpm is labelled for RH7.2.  I'm configuring RH7.2.
1. The Gnome Hardware Browser sees the BCOM5700 but the device is not 
available in the list of adapters in the Gui network configuration (whether from 
neat in a shell or from the GUI).   After "insmod 5700" the Hardware device 
MAC address probe in  Network Configuration finds a MAC address (after 
reboot it does not).  But the configuration dialog cannot complete successfully 
because it cannot initialize the NIC.   There is a traceback, included at the end 
of this email.
2. Grpm shows the package as installed. 
3. "insmod bcm5700"  reports using the bcm5700.o 
4.  The connection lights are on indicating the presence of the cards and proper 
cabling
5. No new hardware is found on reboot. The bcm5700 is in the kudzu/pcitable 
but running kudzu produces no result.
6. ifconfig eth0 address 192.168.0.118 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 
255.255.255.0. produces "host name lookup failure" (the IP and machine name 
are in /etc/hosts, resolve.conf has the IP of a working name server.
This is my first linux install and I have clearly not groked something. Things 
went OK loading drivers for the PREC3-Di using "expert noprobe" mode but 
that method of installation does not find the BCM5700's. 
Any help would be appreciated, including a guru near to Brookline MA who 
would like to do a day or two consulting on the set-up of this system.
Bob Felt
Traceback =
[root localhost tmp]# neat
Copying /etc/hosts to default profile.
Copying /etc/resolv.conf to default profile.
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/libglade.py", line 28, in __call__
    ret = apply(self.func, a)
  File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 358, in on_applyButton_clicked
    self.save()
  File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 242, in save
    self.saveHardware()
  File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 253, in saveHardware
    hardwarelist.save()
  File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-
network/netconfpkg/NCHardwareList.py", line 250, in save
    modules.write()
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Conf.py", line 981, in write
    self[key] = self.vars[key]
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Conf.py", line 933, in 
__setitem__
    findexp = '[\t ]*' + key + '[\t ]+' + varname + '[\t ]+'
TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation




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Robert L. Felt                                          Brookline MA 02445
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