Yet another thread on the Broadcom 4401 issue with RedHat Linux 9 *sigh*

Ok, well I'm sure you've read my title and have started to get angry at yet another noob not being able to install drivers for his hardware *the room makes a collective groan, all mumbling "Stupid newbies" under their breaths*
And before someone decides to point me into the direction of another thread, I've been there, done that. I searched and read, and have tried for almost 5 hours - I'm surprised my computer is still working, and my brain is still in one pieces. *lol*.

So here's my problem:

I have found the driver for my network card at the Broadcom webpage, and I have downloaded it, and tried installing it using the directions written in Geekenese and all its done is make me wanna throw my head into my tower and end all of my problems *snicker*. So what I need is some ENGLISH directions on how to install the driver for my Broadcom 4401 NIC network card, or for someone to point me in the right direction.

Ok, well how far did you get and what type of errors did you come up against?

I got to the point where I opened up the README.txt file and read the instructions, and realized none of it makes any fricken sense lol.

hrm... well ill stick to the most universal of the directions in the file

Originally Posted by README.TXT The following are general guidelines for installing the driver. 1. Create a directory and extract the files: tar xvzf b44-<version>.tar.gz 2. Build the driver b44.o (or b44.ko) as a loadable module for the running kernel: cd src make 3. Test the driver by loading it: insmod b44.o or insmod b44.ko (on 2.6.x kernels) or insmod b44 4. Install the driver: make install

that, i think, is fiarly straightforward, just run all the commands that are in bold.

You also require configured kernel sources in /usr/src/linux

RedHat doesn't install sources by default so you'll need to install the src package for your running kernel which if I remember rightly was kernel-2.4.20-8.src.rpm and run make menuconfig in the /usr/src/linux directory.

Also be aware of many serious security holes/bugs in RH9
There are many magazines with dvd releases of modern distros and I seriously recommend you start there.