Thanks so much for the reply. I'll give it a shot.
Will
--- On Sun 05/25, Kenneth Tindle < ktindle uky edu > wrote:
From: Kenneth Tindle [mailto: ktindle uky edu]
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 01:40:36 -0400
Subject: Re: Installing NIC driver
I too have an ASUS A7V-333X board running with RH9. It does work, but RH
does not ship a driver with the CDs/ISOs because the bcm4400.o driver was not
very good until recently.
Use 1.02 of the driver. Earlier versions are seriously not good. If you use
the old stuff, you will get time outs that will hose eth0 until you manually
restart the networking subsystem. This is Linux, not Windows, so
we don't
need to reboot the whole machine to play with the guts of the network!
I used Google to get at the 1.02 driver. I forget where. Snoop. Don't
waste your time on anything older!
Log in as root.
Install the kernel-source rpm if you haven't done it already. You get a
directory in /usr/src, linux-2.4.20-8 if you have original stock RH9. Make a
sym link to it, if pwd shows /usr/src, 'ln -s linux-2.4.20-8 linux'.
The idea here is that you are going to build a kernel module. So
/usr/src/linux/include must resolve to the same version as your current
running kernel. Do a 'uname -r' to see that. The 'linux' part of this path
is a soft link.
You will have a tarball, put the tar.gz file in a new directory. tar zxvf
. You get a new directory. cd there, and then to 'src'.
make
insmod bcm4400.o
The command prompt comes back with no message when Unix and Unix-like things
are happy. You
might get 'eth0 link is down' after a delay. This is OK.
'lsmod' should show bcm4400 at the top.
If this worked:
make install
and 'startx' (if not in X)
get an xterm and type
redhat-config-network
Now you have a nice gui, Windows-like thingy. If you do not use the gui
tool, you must play with:
/etc/modules.conf
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/hosts
/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
and do 'service network restart'
to get the Internet connectivity you crave. Not impossible but not fun.
If redhat-config-network isn't installed, it is on the RedHat CDs/ISOs.
If you do a kernel upgrade, bcm4400 will get hosed. Be warned. You'll have
to re-assemble your networking subsystem, as your shiny kernel module will
only work with one kernel version.
Cheers.
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