Hello -

I am having serious trouble installing a Broadcom 4401 Ethernet card. Basically, I have the driver, but for some reason it won't allow me to install due to problems with the compile. It has a ton of errors, and it won't allow me to redirect them to a file, so I am unable to print them out for you. I do know quite a bit about C, so I attempted to take a look and see if there actually are errors, or if there is something wrong with the opsys. Obviously, there are know errors that I can tell with the driver, so my conclusion is that there must be something wrong with the system. Here is my system outline:

Dell Inspirion 8500
Broadcom 4401

Red Hat 9.0
Linux Kernel 2.4.20

Thanks a lot for everyone's help -

~Ace

I compiled this driver with a 2.4.20 kernel and it worked great.

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/...0-2.0.0.tar.gz

Now I'm using a 2.4.22 kernel and I can't get it to work, any suggestions out there?

I used the .rpm and basically just used rpm -ivh to build the new kernel. Unfortunately, I am still getting a bunch of C errors when I try to compile the driver. How did you get the driver to work? Did you just do a make/make install? I am really confused as to why I am having trouble compiling the source code. I even have the kernel source in the correct directory and everything!

~ace

When you do "make" does it exit with an error? If so, what is the error?

Well, it responds Make: ***** Error 1, after a long list of compile time errors, all of which for some reason I cannot redirect to a file. I even tried to simply use gcc outright, but to no avail. NO redirection seems to be able to be used. I would like to display the errors here for you to see, but alas...



Anyway, could it be a problem maybe with me not installing the new kernel correctly? I tried it with the old kernel I had, which was the default kernel with RH9, but the same errors came up. I thought the kernel install process would be more complex that it was, as I just used rpm to install it.

~ace

I was having the same problems using Redhats kernel, so I downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel from kernel.org compiled my custom kernel and then compiled the bcm4400 driver and using the RPM method and it worked like a champ. The 2.4.22 kernel has a build in Broadcom driver, but I couldn't get that to work. It would compile, but whenever I tried to get an ip address it failed. I would try getting the kernel from kernel.org and giving that a shot.

I am using a dell insp. 5100 and I d/l'd the driver from broadcom and followed the readme and it works without a problem. Is this where you folks got your driver?

edit: http://www.broadcom.com/docs/driver-download.html