Broadcom 4400 series nic deactivated after installing FC 6

[Vinay Bhardwaj]

On my dell inspiron 1505, NIC had worked fine, it stopped working all of a sudden, couldnt really predict any reason.
   
  What was I doing? --- Was trying for maximum plugins thru yum, guess yum"ing" did this, can this ?

"rich3800 at netzero.net" <rich3800 at netzero.net> wrote:
  I thought it was a Fedora issue but I tried Opensuse 10.2 running Xen
on the same machine and it had the same problem. Next to it, I had a
Dell Dimension 4400 desktop running FC 6 with Xen, accessing the
Internet just fine. 




On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 01:24 -0800, Vinay Bhardwaj wrote:
> yeah I have had the same issue, tried with non - xen and infact ubuntu
> as well, NIC has stopped working on Linux completely while works
> absolutely fine on Windows. BTW I have a dual boot. 

Do you also have Dell Inspiron? Do I understand it correctly that the
network didn't work for you even with non-xen kernels?

Jindrich

> Jindrich Novy wrote: 
> On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 21:14 +0000, rich3800 at netzero.net wrote:
> > After installing Fedora Core 6 on my Dell Inspiron 9100, I
> lose
> > Internet access, which was working during the install. What
> could be
> > wrong? The onboard nic is Broadcom 4400-based or similar.
> 
> Have you tried to use non-xen kernel? The b44 module is known
> not
> functional with xen kernels (it won't work if you use
> 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen and previous kernels)
> 
> For reference please have a look at:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/208242
> 
> One user complains that the b44 module still doesn't work for
> him with
> Dell Inspiron 6000 with the new kernel containing the fix:
> 
> 
http://people.redhat.com/sct/packages/kernel/kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2857.4.2.fc6.0.2.sct/
> 
> even though it works almost for all other notebooks with
> Broadcom (HP in
> my case) so it seems like the whole Dell Inspiron series is
> somehow
> special..
> 
> Jindrich


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Best Regards, 
Vinay Bhardwaj 


 
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