FC3 on a Dell Latitude D820 / Network

[Terry Snyder]

On 9/1/06, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 11:51 -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rex Dieter
> > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 11:49 AM
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: FC3 on a Dell Latitude D820 / Network
> >
> > Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone know a quick and dirty way to get the onboard nic working?
> >
> > upgrade to FC5/6? :)
> >
> > -- Rex
> >
> > I know, I know but no can do.  Our software is FC3 on for the moment
> > (I'm working on it).
>
> Looking at Dell's website, it's unclear what the wired NIC is.  They use
> the euphemistic "10/100/1000 Gigabit" description, which is almost
> useless.
>
> The wireless is EITHER an Intell PRO 3945A/G OR the Dell 1490.  I don't
> think FC3 (or FC5 for that matter) has drivers for those.  You probably
> need to use the Windows drivers under ndiswrapper.  See
>
>         http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
>
> for details on that.  As to the wired NIC, do an "lspci -v" and see what
> ethernet controllers you have.  We can advise you better that way.
>
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I am using a Dell Latitude D820 with FC5.  The wired network card is:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 90
        Memory at dcef0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

Wireless network card from Dell True Mobile 1394:
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 4311 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0007
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
        Memory at dcffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

Hope this helps.  I know the old Latitude 600m that I have worked with
the wired network card with FC3 and it is was also a Broadcom card.

-- 
Terry Snyder Jr
Computer Support Specialist
http://www.personal.psu.edu/tes215
Linux (Red Hat, Fedora Core), Windows, Mac
Fedora Core 5  3 users,  load average: 0.19, 0.30, 0.28