Yet another broadcom nic hassle
1st, Knoppix is a Godsend!!!
(Where do I line up to butt-smootch the developer???) :lol:
In fact, if I can ever get my silly onboard nic to work, I think I'll ditch Microcrap Winblows entirely (well, except for games....har!)
Ok, enuff psycho-babble...
Like so many others I've seen in these threads, I have a Broadcom 440x onboard nic problem....Knoppix fails to detect, and I'm sure it's due to an IRQ problem. Trouble is, I have no idea how to solve the conflict.
When I 1st boot up Knoppix, I see this at the top of the screen:
"PCI: Device 00:1f:1 not available because of resource collisions"
Upon investigating the dmesg, I also found this:
"PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:1f.1"
I don't know if these messages have anything to do with my nic, since Winblows reports that my nic is on IRQ 10.
I've gone into my BIOS and tried several things:
- Plug & Play Aware OS = NO (this has solved hassles in the past with redhat)
- changed APIC setting to PIC
- set ALL ISA IRQ's to "NA" (ain't got no stinkin' ISA devices)
I've also tried using combinations of the following cheats:
noapic nosmp nopcmcia dma noscsi lang=en screen=800x600 pci=biosirq
....still no nic.
I have run all the following commands in a shell (both root and regular user) :
netcardconfig = "No supported device found"
modprobe tg3
cat /proc/pci
None of the above commands gave me anything I could see as useful.
So what do I do now?
I really, really, really (have I said really?) want to use Knoppix, but without net access, it's viturtually useless to me.
Also, could someone please tell me how I go about compiling the module for for my nic? I downloaded the source file posted in another related thread (bcm4400-source_1.0.1-1_all.deb).
BTW: I'm running Knoppix v3.2 (2003-06-06) from the CD, but I have myconfig and home on my HDD.
My board is an ASUS P4PE.
Any/all help would be greatly appreciated!
Re: Yet another broadcom nic hassle
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Originally Posted by fatso
Also, could someone please tell me how I go about compiling the module for for my nic? I downloaded the source file posted in another related thread (bcm4400-source_1.0.1-1_all.deb).
First of all- thanks for posting what you've already tried to do in order to get this NIC working. It sure saves alot of time and headache.
You don't have to compile a .deb just install it. I prefer to use Midnight Commander but there are other utilities like Synaptic.
As root:
# mc
Then just browser to your .deb, hit enter on the .deb and it will open up. Arrow down to Install and stand back! Of course that might not do a bit of good if your NIC can't get an IRQ.
Code:
~$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 3632800 XT-PIC timer
1: 12522 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 11459 XT-PIC ESS Solo1
10: 65298 XT-PIC usb-ohci
11: 3091792 XT-PIC HP J2973, radeon@PCI:1:5:0
14: 73871 XT-PIC ide0
15: 9 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
So you see it is possible to share IRQ's-my NIC and video card seem to coexist together quite happily. Can you change the IRQ of another device or move a card to another slot maybe?