I just installed REdhat9 for the first time on my laptop and it seems working fine. But it has not recognized my NIC which is broadcom 440.

I downloaded the driver, which has both RPM and tar files. There is a readme file which explains what to do.

1. Install the source RPM package:

rpm -ivh bcm4400-<version>.src.rpm

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)


I am stuck at the second step, when i type this command it says "-bb unknown option"


So i tried using the Tar file, extracted it, according to this step
1. Create a directory and extract the files:

tar xvzf bcm4400-<version>.tar.gz

then got stuck again.

2. Build the driver bcm4400.o as a loadable module for the running kernel:

cd src
make

when i type the make command, it says Kernel tree not found.....

so guys and Gurus, i am a noob in this area, but please help me to get this working, so i can surf internet with my Linux Redhat 9, which i downloaded 2 days ago.

I have successfully compiled broadcom drivers (one that comes with HP) before. Perhaps, this might help

1) RPM the file
2) tar the *.gz file
3) cd /usr/src ...
4) make
5) make install
6) insmod bcm*.so (replace with your file)
7) kudzu

Note that you need to have the kernel development packages installed. I guess that's the cause of the error you are encountering