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Old 09-15-2014, 03:19 PM   #1
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[Closed] Ethernet driver missing from HP d530 SFF computer in Ubuntu 12.04


2014-09-15

I used to be able to see my HP d530 SFF computer's Broadcom ethernet card listed in the BIOS PCI Devices section but no longer. Neither do I see it when I enter the 'sudo lishw' command in Linux. Does this mean that the ethernet driver has gone bad or been deleled somehow? My d530 is now running Ubuntu 12.04 as its only operating system.

Any help will be much appreciated.

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Old 09-15-2014, 03:38 PM   #2
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What does the following report? (With or without the driver, the kernel should still enumerate the device)
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/sbin/lspci -nnk
*Try to identify (if it exists) the output block pertaining to your network device. If it doesn't, it can mean failed or disabled hardware.
 
Old 09-15-2014, 03:40 PM   #3
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Do you have network enabled in bios?
 
Old 09-15-2014, 07:13 PM   #4
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Hi ferrari and EDDY1,

lspci shows many devices except the ethernet card and network security is enabled in BIOS.

Tonight I saw a Linux driver for this Broadcom card mentioned as linux-1.4.43b.zip at a site but it's no longer available there.

Thanks very much for your advice.

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Old 09-15-2014, 07:19 PM   #5
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Forget the driver at this stage. If it does not show up in the 'lspci' output then the hardware is either disabled for some reason, or has failed, as I mentioned previously.
 
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Maybe try disabling network security & see if you see the card with lspci.
 
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http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
 
Old 09-16-2014, 11:28 PM   #8
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Hi erik,

Thank you very much for your input, which I think deals with 802.11 devices. Since I tend to think that my HP d530's ethernet hardware is gone for good in light of the data I've gathered based on advice from this website and from two other Linux-support sites, I now close this
question.

julianvb

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