Broadcom NIC problem

[Morcos]

Hi,
I installed Red hat 8. My network card is broadcom NetXtreme. I tried to give it an IP, but when trying to activate it, always have this message "Cannot activate network device eth0". I execute the command : lsmod; tg3 wasn't in the output. when executing "modprobe tg3" I get this message "/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/derivers/net/tg3.0:init_module: No such device"
Any idea?

Regards,
ziad

[Stuart Browne · Accepted solution]

First a question. Why are you using such an old Distribution?

RH8 didn't have (good) support for the Broadcom series of network cards.

Go to Broadcom's website and get a more recent version of their 'bcm5700' driver (which I believe covers this card), compile it for the kernel you are using (instructions provided with the source), and use that.

Or better yet, just use a newer distribution (FC3 or FC4!)

[HGN]

Hi

Like stuart had mentioned you need to download the driver from the broadcom site and install it,once that is done the system will recognize the nic card.

Rgds

HGN

[Rick Garland]

The 5700 driver is definitely better that the tg3 driver. Get it from the BroadCom site as suggested. All instructions are on the site as well.

[Srinivasan_8]

Download the drives from http://www.broadcom.com/drivers

it works.

All the best!.

Rgds
Srini

[Morcos]

Hi all,
Thx for the information you gave to me.
I downloaded the bcm5700 and it works.

Regards,
Ziad

[Ross Minkov]

Ziad,

Please don't use Red Hat Linux 8. This is very old distro and not supported.

Try Fedora Core 4. You can download it for free from http://fedora.redhat.com/download/

If you want a Debian like distro you can use Ubuntu -- go to http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ and click on Shipit -- they will ship to you CDs for free.

-Ross

[Morcos]

Thanks Ross for the information

Regards,
Ziad