Hello all, I'm just getting into Linux and am having problems getting my Internet up and running. I have a Asus P4PE-L motherboard with a built in Broadcom Ethernet Controller. Red Hat Linux 8.0 doesn't auto-detect it and I'm not sure how to install the driver. I have the driver for Linux on CD, but not sure how to install it. There's some things that I think are command prompt type instructions, but I'm not sure what to do with it.

Any help on what to do in my case?



Kenneth

If you haven't already checked out the thread of doom about the broadcom:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=33441

You might want to look there.

Cheers,

Finegan

Try this command :

grep CONFIG_TIGON3 /boot/config-`uname -r`

If you see «# CONFIG_TIGON3 is not set», you could try to recompile a custom kernel, just with that option changed. It is the driver for a Broadcom Gigabit card, and your motherboard include such a controller.

If you have a /usr/src/linux, you just have to do that :

cd /usr/src/linux
cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
make xconfig

Then go in «Networking device suppor», «Ethernet (1000 Mbit)» and click on the «m» of the Broadcom card. Then save and exit, and run :

make dep && make bzImage && make install

Verify in the Kernel-HOWTO, I'm not sure anymore (I'm using Debian, and it's own kernel building system).
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO

You just have to add a line with :

tg3

in your /etc/modules, or run :

modprobe tg3

to have your controller working.