F12 - Broadcom BCM57780 Gigabit ethernet

[moxie]

Hello everybody,
I have an issue, this issue to be exact: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525966

My broadcom BCM57780 is not detected. I just download Fedora 12 today and was happy to get it up and running. The bug report says it was fixed in f11, but it does not appear to be working in F12 either. I tried both the i686 and x64 live cd's and neither find the Ethernet adapter.

I would really love to get my new computer up and running without having to buy another Ethernet card to do so.

any thoughts from anybody?

[moxie]

nobody else has this issue with F12 and the broadcom BCM57780? I know it's not a bad nic, I tried loaded F12 on another machine with the same nic with the results, no worky.

I would love to be able to use F12.

[moxie]

just to follow up to close out this thread. I decided to give up getting this to work. I ended up just buying a netgear ethernet card and all is well.

[cisengineer]

I'm having the same problem on my new Dell Zino HD that uses this card. Are you sure it works with Fedora 11? I may just do that.

[timreid]

I had this same problem with my Zino and using the BCM 57780 card. I have documented a workaround in this thread.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=236783

Hope it helps.

-Tim

[live11]

Originally Posted by moxie

. . .I decided to give up getting this to work. I ended up just buying a netgear ethernet card . . .

Originally Posted by cisengineer

I'm having the same problem on my new Dell Zino HD that uses this card. Are you sure it works with Fedora 11? . . .

To chime in and add my 2 ¢ . . .

I knew that Fedora 11 Live works fine with the Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet card used in our university computers -
so this didn't seem much of a bug in F11 or F12 strictly speaking.
I was aware that when running a FreeBSD live version, the unix world looks at drivers of the interface NIC, where I get:

"/dev/bge0" and "Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet BCM5750 A1, ASIC rev. 0x4001"

Originally Posted by timreid

I had this same problem with my Zino and using the BCM 57780 card. I have documented a workaround in this thread.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=236783

With the newest hardware tried on the newest operating system releases - it may usually be just a driver / configuration problem -
and not really any implied Broadcom or Fedora "compatability" issue.

It's good to see again it's a simple fix for those that need it,
and glad that most of those that want to be on the cutting edge shouldn't resort to what seems imho a bit more drastic -
buying a different piece of hardware so that the driver / configuration is already there.

It's more like just a matter of turning the device "on".