Fedora and Broadcom 440 NIC

[Marc Schwartz]

> On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:09:10 -0500, Marc Schwartz
> <mschwartz at medanalytics.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 16:36, Enayetur RAHEEM wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > I have installed FC2 but my NIC is not working. Any help will be appreciated.
> > > Do I need to get a new driver for the NIC? It is Broadcomm 440 100based T.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > ER
> > 
> > 
> > If you have more than 1Gb of RAM on your system, there is a known bug.
> > 
> > A replacement b44 module (to be compiled) is available at:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118165
> > 
> > The tarball towards the end of the comments (#55) will work, but note
> > the directions closely pertaining to modifying:
> > 
> > /lib/modules/YOUR_KERNEL/build/include/linux/pci_ids.h
> > 
> > I had this problem on my Dell 5150 laptop (with 2Gb of RAM). This new
> > module works.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > Marc Schwartz

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 23:26, Enayetur RAHEEM wrote:
> Hi Marc
> 
> Thanks for your mail. I have followed the instructions as described in
> that URL. But when I compiled the module, it gave me an error messege
> but completed well. Then I replaced the existing b44.ko file with the
> latest one (however thre were some other files created in the tarball
> folder, I did not do anyting with them. Then restarted the PC.
> 
> While starting up network devices, it says " eth0 does not seem to be
> present, delaying initialization".
> 
> After loging in as root, I manually tried to add the device, but again
> it says "b44 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying
> initialization".
> 
> My System is Dell Inspiron, 5100 with only 256 MB RAM. I will be very
> happy if you can help me further.
> 
> Regards
> Raheem


Raheem,

If you only have 256 Mb of RAM on your system, then the problem solved
by the Bugzilla patched b44 module I mentioned will not solve your
problem. Note that I indicated "If you have more than 1Gb of RAM on your
system..."

Your problem is then something else.

Please post back the output of:

1. /sbin/lsmod | grep b44

2. cat /etc/modprobe.conf

3. /sbin/lspci

The output of the above commands may provide some insight into what is
happening.

Also, can you please post the error message that you got when compiling
the patched b44 module and to clarify that it was an "error" and not a
"warning". If the module did not properly compile, that may result in
additional conflicts. The other files created are byproducts of the
compilation process and can be ignored. The key file is b44.ko.  Finally
note that you should not have to restart the system. You can remove the
current b44 module by using:

/sbin/rmmod b44

and then install the new one by using:

/sbin/insmod b44

HTH,

Marc