Can someone please help I have been stuck for days.

Mathew S. Nowend mathewnowend at swfla.rr.com
Fri Nov 12 00:34:05 UTC 2004


Okay I am able to boot into FC3.  I did try to go into ispci and it said it
didn't exist. It is a intergrated NIC BCM 4401 I did follow the link from
below and I don't know where to get the kernel to update mine and then I do
not know how to replace it.

Mathew

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Cc: douglas.furlong at firebox.com
Subject: RE: Can someone please help I have been stuck for days.


Doug 

I saw this posting and this is the series of NIC card that I have. Maybe
that is why I am not getting a network connection?  Thanks for the other
advice I am working on that now.

Thanks
Mathew
-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Marc Schwartz
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 5:48 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: Can someone please help I have been stuck for days.

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:01 -0500, Mathew S. Nowend wrote:
> I should have mentioned also that I am trying to install FC3 (which I
> get the eth0 lock up) and or  FC2 (which I get themodprobe: Fatal
> Error: Error inserting floppy
> c/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko:No such
> device). The hardware that I am trying to install this on is a Dell
> Inspiron 8600 Pentium M 1.8ghz 2 gigs of RAM 60 gig hd (with xp
> partition) broadcom 10/100 NIC broadcom 56k modem sgimatel audio
> cdrw/dvd  combo drive and a modular floppy that can also be used by
> USB cable  I have a nvidia gforce fx go5200 64 meg video card and a
> 15.4 wuxga screen. Due to the lack of ports on my laptop I am plugged
> into a port replicator and I have tried both installs with and without
> being plugged into the port replicator.  Hope this information is
> helpful.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mathew


Mathew,

Which Broadcom NIC is it?  If it is the BCM44XX series, there is a known
kernel related bug and a fix available at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118165

I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 and this was a problem under FC2 and now FC3
as well, since the kernel patch has not yet been included upstream.

Using lspci in a console, see what information it prints out for your
NIC. For me, it is:

...
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev
01)
...

If this fits your hardware, use the kernel module patch that Pekka has
listed in comment #66 on the above web page.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz


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