Broadcom 4400 series nic deactivated after installing FC 6

[Jindrich Novy]

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