Hi

I have the following NIC:
Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX

I have visited Broadcom Corporations website and looked at "Support and Downloads" and i found many NICs, but not the one i have. I was looking for the user guide to the NIC to understand the NIC LED lights. The NIC works without any problems, but i would like to know what the different lights mean. I have two lights, a contant orange light and a flashing yellow light. I have read on the net that the lights have different meaning on different NICs, so in that case it would be nice to get my hands on the NIC manual, which doesnt seem to be on the manufacturers website.

Does someone know how i can figure out what the lights mean when i cant find the user guide on the manufacturers website ?

I have seen when using the ifconfig command that the following is being displayed to the terminal:
I have searched on google but i cant find out what this all means. I know what collisions mean though from my understanding of how Ethernet works.

All help is appericiated

If you had given us the link, maybe we could have tried searching for you.
Short answer: No Different manufacturers give different meanings to the little blinking lights.
0.014% of your packets result in errors. This is a trivial error rate. If you really wish to reduce this to zero, then maybe upgrade your cable quality, or re-route your cables away from sources of electrical interference (power lines, heavy industrial equipment, washing machines etc.)

But you say "The NIC works without any problems", so why are you bothering us with this?

Find out your chipset, you may need ndiswrapper.

It's old, but seems the card is also. It's a work around.

lshw will give you the info, then you'll need ndiswrapper.

tredegar: link to broadcom website: www.broadcom.com. Why "bother" you with this ? This is a forum, you dont have to answer if you dont want to (it is appericiated though if you do). The reason i want to know this is because i simply want to learn and i want to know for example why one of my LED lights a contantly orange and not green. That being said, the only question in this thread was not only about LED lights on the NIC, it was also about what the ifconfig output meant.

cloud9repo: ndiswrapper ? Why would i use this, this is a wired NIC and its working correctly as far as i can tell.

Mis-read. The lights can indicate any number of things. Including rapid reset at the ISP. Which mine tends to due.
It's do to all the hacker traffic. Where approx. 20% of my bandwidth is collisions, and resent packets.