P4PE motherboard LAN Driver installtion
 

Hi,

I recently managed to install redhat 9.0 on my machine :). I have an ASUS P4PE motherboard. I have been having problems with the onboard Broadcom 440 10/100. I believe the problem is that redhat 9 does not have the proper driver for it therefore my LAN internet connection does not work. After many attempts to install the tar and rpm versions of the driver available from the motherboard CD and also the latest off the broadcom website I am still unable to install the drivers. After some more searching I followed the instructions on post questions/history/91814 of this website. Unfortunately i can't post URLs yet.

I attempted to install kernel-2.4.20-30.9.i386.rpm and kernel-source-2.4.20-30.9.i386.rpm. Installation of kernel-2.4.20-30.9.i386.rpm went along fine but when I tried to install kernel-source-2.4.20-30.9.i386.rpm I got the following error:
gcc >= 2.96-98 is needed by kernel-source-2.4.20-30.9

So, could some one out there please help me out please? Learning Linux with easy internet access would be a lot easier.

Thanks in advance

You need to get a newer version of gcc - newer than or equal to version 2.96-98.
You shouldn't have too much trouble finding an RPM for that.

--Rounan

Thanks for your advice Rounan. I managed to acquire and install gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm successfully. I was then able to install kernel-source-2.4.20-30.9.i386.rpm without error. However when i tried to install bcm4400-3.0.7-1.src.rpm I got an error.

[root@localhost temp]# rpm -ivh bcm4400-3.0.7-1.src.rpm
error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

I was logged in as root and folder temp is a subfolder inside the root folder. Could someone please point out the problem to me?

Thanks.

have been getting similar errors with my broadcom in my laptop on RH9, so i manually create the folders and it extracts, but then the next step get stuck again.

2. CD to the RPM path and build the binary driver for your kernel:
cd /usr/src/{redhat,OpenLinux,turbo,packages,rpm ..}
rpm -bb SPECS/bcm4400.spec

or
rpmbuild -bb SPECS/bcm4400.spec (for RPM version 4.x.x)

Note that the RPM path is different for different Linux distributions.

it says "-bb: unknown option" when i type the above command.

Any guys like to help Pls