Re: missing eth0

[Martin Røpcke <mr xosoftware dk>]

I did everything as root and also:

[#] find / insmod

revealed nothing.


Mark Knecht wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 02:36, Martin Røpcke wrote:
>  
>
> > > Hi,
> > >  The Asus motherboard of recent times seem to all be using the Broadcom
> > > BCM4400 series ethernet controllers. Redhat's support for this has been
> > > spotty. I don't remember if it was supported on RH9. Luckily it wasn't that
> > > difficult for me to fix on my A7V333-X machine:
> > >
> > > 1) Double check that it is the bcm4400 family using lspci as root.
> > >
> > > 2) If it is, then on your Asus CDROM they supplied a drivers directory that
> > > has the driver source code. Place it in a directory somewhere and build it.
> > > (As user type 'make'. If everything goes OK, then as root type 'make
> > > install'.)
> > >
> > > 3) You can load it by hand just typing 'modprobe bcm4400' or you can alias
> > > it in your modules.conf file.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Several commands are not available, e.g. insmod, modprobe, lspci. 
> >    
>
> These commands are only available as root. Did you switch user?
>
> su -
> type root password
>
> lspci
>
> Note: You can build the source code as a user or as root, but oyu can
> only install it as root. This is for system security reasons. You can
> only insmod the driver as root, again for security reasons.
>
>  
>
> > I am 
> > wondering if it is all caused by the upgrade instead of a new install of 
> > RH9?! I have tried to do the "make", "insmod", and "install" procedure 
> > as described in the release text on the driver-cd-rom and only get error 
> > messages. Since I have only "played" with my RH-partion nothing 
> > important will be deleted so I'll try a new install. If I still have 
> > problems I will return.
> > Thanks for now
> > Martin
> >
> >
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