Weirdest bcm4400 problem

jjares · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2002 Posts: 17 Location: Argentina

Hi,

I am having a really strange problem with the bcm4400 network adapter driver. I recently bought an msi mother that comes with a bcm4400 network adapter onboard. I booted from the livecd 1.4rc3 and everything works fine (the adapter is detected and configured via dhcp). I installed gentoo-sources and later xfs-sources with the driver and load it at boot time but the network adapter won't work. I can bring it up and assign an ip address by hand, but it won't ping any of the other machines that are online (it can ping itself). Needless to say, I can't bring the adapter up via dhcp. I tried to use /proc/config to build the new kernel (xfs) and use acpi=off in the command line, like the livecd does, but I am lost on what to do next.
Anyone knows what to try?

(btw, I am using grub and an nvidia gforce4 mx440, that maybe bothering?)

Thanks
Julian

dma · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 7:42 pm Post subject:

There is a new version 1.0.3 of the bcom4400 driver but it is in beta testing and only some people (like me) have it. I obtained it by contacting the author directly. I could send it to you if you want.

It fixes carrier errors and other stuff. I still have some latency issues though and it sometimes seems jittery.

I have saved the beta version of the driver at this location. Please keep in mind that this is a beta driver.

Also, you might want to get ethtool:

jjares · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2002 Posts: 17 Location: Argentina

Thanks a lot for the beta driver (I was actually trying to find it, since I've read somewhere that 1.0.1 wasn't the newest). Anyway, I fixed the problem. It seems my machine has an issue when Local APIC is active in the General Processor settings. I installed another network adopter and it didn't work either (an RTL8139 based). I unchecked Local APIC from my processor settings, and both network adapters started working.