Dell Inspiron 9100 Network card

[Heron]

Hi

I have a problem with my network device. By the Installation of Fedora everything was fine and all hardware was detected. But on starting up Fedora, the network card could not be startet and I get a message like "Cable unplugged". My cable is plugged.
I try to install the Linux driver for the Broadcom 440x, but this faild too.

Had someone the same problem?
Can anyone help?

thanks
Heron

PS: I want to change over to Linux from Windows and Im a nooooob on Linux

[imdeemvp]

i dont know if this will help: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#wirelessanaconda

[Heron]

thnx

it dosent solve my problem. But a good referenc for other problems^^

[imdeemvp]

the Broadcom 440x? huh....this was an issue with another nic being detected but not working i just dont quite remember who posted the thread

no matter what he tried it did not work at all, pls do a forum search.

[Heron]

thnx, i will search

[imdeemvp]

Originally Posted by Heron

thnx, i will search

ok Heron and good luck

[Heron]

hmm

I searched and I saw anywhere a solution.

Maybe it can be the BCM5705M driver, but I cant install the driver (how?)
or in the network conifguration menu there is no entry for my bcm 440 eather.

[olivierv]

Hi Heron,

I have a 9100 running FC2. The driver that is loaded by default by FC2 doesn't seem to work. It looks like the card is there, it is recognized, but I could never get it to communicate. What I did was go the the manufacturer website and got the driver for the card and compiled it.

Once installed, it works like a charm.

Good luck.

Olivier

Broadcom driver page:
http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php

Look under BCM4401 Drivers

[edit]
Sorry- I'm an idiot... read your post again and saw you tried the driver. Do you get any error messages? Also, before loading the compiled driver, did you remove the default driver using rmmod?

[Heron]

Hi

Yes while i compiled it i get errors, but I didn't remove the old driver
I will try it.
thnx

else I will kompile the new Kernel 2.6.8.1 and hope it will work

[edit]
to remove the old driver

rmmod - bcm4400
is it correct?

[olivierv]

yes, rmmod bcm440 should remove the old driver. Be sure to do, as root,

ifdown eth0

before or it might say the driver is in use.

Now, regarding the compile errors you mentioned when building the driver- what are they? You shouldn't have any errors when doing the make portion of the build. Can you post the errors you get?

[Heron]

ok, i try to build after I install the rpm file

rpmbuild -bb SPECS/bcm4400.spec

an here are the erors

make: No Rule to make target bcm4400.0
bad exit from usr/tmp/....(temfile)

[olivierv]

I installed from source. Try this

tar -xzf bcm4400-3.0.7.tar.gz
cd [extracted dir name, it's been a while]
make

That should compile the drivers. If you get errors, post them. If not, try this,

su
insmod bc44     (to load the driver)

If that works, then do, still as root

make install
exit

[Heron]

ok i will try

[Heron]

ok i tryed it and get error again

while i "make" the fallowing error apear:

"Warning: genapic bcm4400.ko undefined"

then insmod bcm4400.o

"error inserting bcm4400.o (-1 invalid module format)"

my older driver is removed and I see that I have two kernels 2.6.5, a normal one and one with smb

[olivierv]

Do you know if you installed the kernel source code?

If you don't know, try

rpm -qa | grep kernel

and see if one of the returned option is kernel-source-2.6.5-1.358

If not then you need to install it. I've never used source RPMs to install software before so I'm not sure if SRPMs require the kernel source to install or not. I usually compile from source if standard RPMs are not available.

Also, doing anything after a failed make command (like make install) is not going to work. The make step has to be successful in order to continue. Just a heads up