I can't detect my ethernet card

crox · 11-16-2003, 06:39 AM

Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow) picks it up automatically, as does Mandrake 9.2, SuSE 8.2 & SuSE 9.0. I really love SuSE 9.0; consider trying it and forget Red Hat 9.

dick471 · 11-16-2003, 09:29 AM

Crox: Yes I agree about Mandrake. My mobo nic broadcom 4401 were picked up in Suse 8.2Pro and Mandrake 9.1. This is exactly why I gave up on RedHat 9. I haven't tried Fedora, but will as soon as I find an iso link. Thanks for the info. Dick
PS: I also have Slackware and Turbolinux, but haven't loaded yet to see if they find the ethernet on the A7V8X.

crox · 11-17-2003, 06:21 AM

Fedora is a disappointment according to professional reviews.

http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5111

dick471 · 11-17-2003, 09:19 AM

Crox: Found the .iso's and installed Fedora-Core1. Not impressed all. I think I'll stick with Suse 8.2 and Mandrake 9.1. I boot from seperate external scsi hard drives>>>98se/NT4.0/W2000/XP Pro/Suse8.2/Fedora/Mandrake9.1. I do think this is enough to "Play" with?

Thanks for the article about Fedore.

master · 05-23-2004, 06:15 AM

hello iv allso got the same problem now iv got the cd with the driver on it
i created a directory called bcm i became root typed" ls" i could see the package called "bcm4400-1.0.tar"so i typed "tar xvf bcm4400-1.0.tar"
it then brought this up
src/b44.h
src/b441m.c
src/b441m.h
src/b44mm.h
src/b44proc.c
src/b44queue.h
src/b44um.csrc/makefile
src/bcm400.4.gz
can any 1 tell me where im going wrong please