Broadcom 4400 not responding

MrAkuma · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 22

Hi, I have installed Gentoo (2004.2) but I cant make my eth0 work. Its a Broadcom 44xx.

I compiled my kernel with support for this model, but it doesnt work.

The eth0 is up, it takes an IP (static), I even can ping this IP (itself), but nothing else.

I dont even see the link lights on.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot
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b-ill · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Ontario Canada

All I could guess would be that the card itself is not working, or you have some sort of firewall blocking pings.
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MrAkuma · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 22

With Mepis (just booting from the CD) it works flawlessly, so its not the card.

I have no firewall installed
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syg00 · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:25 pm Post subject:

Recently had similar on a Dell laptop.
Works fine on the LiveCD, not after the 2.6.8-r3 2004.2 build.
Even tried to steal the module from the LiveCD, but it wouldn't load - invalid format IIRC.
Go to the Broadcom site and download their package - it's a zip that contains a source tar and an RPM (ignore the latter).
Compile and you're away.