First, thank you for your patience with a true newbie question. I just installed Red Hat 9.0 on a dual boot machine (with Win2K), and for the most part, the installation was a breeze. However, the installation did not recognize my integrated network controller, a Broadcom 440x 10/100. I tracked down what in theory was a self-executable installation for the driver. However, the Broadcom controller does not show up in Red Hat's Internet Connection Wizard when I try to set up a new Ethernet connection.

Any suggestions? I would be perfectly happy to perform a manual installation of the driver if someone could provide detailed instructions.

Cheers,
Paleocli

hi paleocli, welcome to lq. which file did you download, and how did you go about installing it?

Hi, I am having the same problem. When Red Hat starts up it doesn't find the device eth0 associated with bcm5700 module (which is the broadcom 440x 10/100 driver). I think it has something to do with my modules.conf as in it doesn't have the correct IRQ. Also, when I run insmod bcm5700, it finds the .o but init_mod fails saying that there might be a problem with parameters as IRQ or IO.
Any ideas?

PEACEDOG - I managed to solve the problem - I got the file from the BeBits web site (did a Google search for +"Broadcom 440x" +driver +linux). I also got a hold of a file named bcm4400-2.0.5-1.src.rpm that contained the necessary driver files. Most of my problem stemmed from the fact that I was not doing the installation while logged in as root. As long as I was logged in as anyone else, including "su," the installation would give me errors.

Cheers,
paleocli

Hi, i also facing the difficulty of having detecting broadcom 440x 10/100 network driver. Would u kind enough to point me the website u download the file ? or kind enough to send me the file directly ? Thanks alot. What do u mean by not doing the installation ?

Regards
Daniel