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I'm glad this post is helping people out. Nothing worse than eagerly starting off with a new OS and then not being able to find lucid and detailed instructions. Of course, there's a certain satisfaction to learning something on one's own, but it helps to have a lead or two.
Hey, LC, your post really helped me out. I'm amazed that this issue isn't discussed on Dell's web site, they ship the Dell Dimension 2400 with the Broadcom 440 ethernet card, and they're a big partner with Red Hat, so you'd think they'd work a little closer to ensure that their products work together out of the box.
And all it would take would be for RH to include the driver in their package.
Seems so easy.
But I guess this doesn't come up much, otherwise it would have been easier to resolve.
The only thing I'm miffed about is now I won't be forced to learn all the stuff you just learned!
Thanks LooseCanon!
I have searched many message boards and printed numerous instructions, but yours ACTUALLY WORKED! Bravo...........Thanks to your new found knowledge, I have finished a two day project setting up a dual boot Windows XP/Red Hat 9.
Do these kernels designed for older chip architectures work with the new pentiums. I tried following your directions, but using the i686 files instead, but unfortunatly I couldn't find the kernel-source file with the i686 suffix. When I tried to use the i386 kernels I got a headerRead failed error. I'll try it some other ways. Im closer to getting this net card to work than I was before. Thanks for what you have up here.
I didn't give up on Linux because I couldn't get Loose Cannon's procedure to work. I GAVE UP on RED HAT!!!!
I loaded Fedora Core and it found the Asus Broadcom 4401 drivers and works perfect.
I recently installed RH9 and have never had to manually install the kernal-source. I have both yum and apt-get installed. Get from here http://k3b.org/ .K3b has great links to both.
Any way......I just added some extra repository's and ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and it installs everything.
Really nice instead of tearing out your hair trying to deal with all the dependencies.
I followed the steps and installed the kernel-2.4.20-28.9 but how do I tell this thing to boot the new kernel? it is still loading the old one,
I use the boot disk with lilo and it does not let me choose anything. thanks god I still have winxp to type this message, I have looked everywhere for an answer and I am so close to getting the stupid drivers to work for the net card, so I can start another threat for the modem, sound card, TV tuner card since they don't work iether, but I CANNOT LOAD THE NEW KERNEL. and all the post that I read no one seems to give an example with the lilo boot disk option, should I reinstall again? this would be the 12th time though and I don't want to screw up with the XP on the other drive. I started the whole thing using virtual machine software to try it out and it actually worked better there than with the real thing. please someone help me!! if I need to post some more info let me know.
oh, my printer works!! uhmm scanner? nah don't need it
It worked!!!!
I tell you I guess you got to get pissed at this thing so it understands you
I started from scratch again and installed everything there is to install. then I had problems with the video no pro I got pissed at it and it started to work by changing the driver in XF86 to "nv" got over that one then I installed to new kernel and was back to square 1 it would not let me choose the new kernel will not give me the option. thats when I got pissed and posted #26 then I tried just for the heck of it installing the driver for the bcm4400 and oddly enough I did not get the error messages and it now works, I now can go on and deal with the other issues like sound card, modem and others but at least I can do all that straight from RH9 thanks for nothing anyways cuz noone answered me when I needed it the most but the good part is I did not give up, now I ran the update and it asks me if I want to install the new kernel which to my knowledge is already installed, the linux stuff needs a lot of work. but am the net now see ya suckers
Originally posted by dick471 I didn't give up on Linux because I couldn't get Loose Cannon's procedure to work. I GAVE UP on RED HAT!!!!
I loaded Fedora Core and it found the Asus Broadcom 4401 drivers and works perfect.
did it find your built in sound too?
I can't get my sound to work on RH9, and am considering to use Fedora too.
by the way I think am going to dedicate a box for linux, cuz somehow when I reboot to windows my net card is shutdown, and I have to disconnect the power cable from the box then wait, turn it back on, go into windows, and yet still some usb device has problems according to windows I still don't know which one that is. any ideas
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