I'm out of options (other than installing Fedora again), please help. I tried downloading the linux driver from the official broadcom page ((can't post urls yet)www broadcom com support ethernet_nic downloaddrivers.php)

The download contains an rpm and source code. I tried first with the rpm, but obtained an error "Failed dependencies: /bin/sh required". Slackware doesn't handle rpms well I was told, so I tried converting it with rpm2tgz then installpkg. Nothing appeared in the console after running this command so I assumed it worked ok, but when checking with modprobe bcm4400 I got this error:

modprobe bcm4400
/lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/bcm4400.o: kernel-module version mismatch /lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/bcm4400.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.18-14
while this kernel is version 2.4.31.
/lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/bcm4400.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/bcm4400.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/bcm4400.o: insmod bcm4400 failed


I tried compiling the source too (with make) but got this compilation error.

but upon trying make, the compilation failed:

gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DDBG=0 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -I/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -c -o b44um.o b44um.c
In file included from /lib/modules/2.4.31/build/include/linux/spinlock.h:6,
from /lib/modules/2.4.31/build/include/linux/module.h:12,
from b44mm.h:33,
from b44um.c:19:
/lib/modules/2.4.31/build/include/asm/system.h: In function `__set_64bit_var':
/lib/modules/2.4.31/build/include/asm/system.h:190: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
/lib/modules/2.4.31/build/include/asm/system.h:190: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
b44um.c:506:46: pasting "->" and "intstatus" does not give a valid preprocessing token
b44um.c:507:51: pasting "->" and "gptimer" does not give a valid preprocessing token
make: *** [b44um.o] Error 1

This kernel should work;
ftp://slackware.oregonstate.edu/pub/.../linux-2.6.13/
make sure to read the README.initrd