Quote 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?