Network problem.. Driver bcm57xx needed.

mrbrdo · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 3

Hello.
I own a Acer Aspire 1501 LMi, which has a Broadcom network card. The drivers for this card are bcm57xx (bcm5700.ko). I would like to install the drivers that are available on Broadcom's site, but i don't know how to do that. I want to do that before installing, because i want to do a stage1 install and i need this network interface to be working for that. ifconfig does show eth0, but whatever i want to do with it (like set ip) i get that that's unsupported, so it seems the wrong drivers were selected for the card.
I reckon i was able to use this card one time using emachines kernel, which doesn't seem to be available anymore, but afaik that was with the 64-bit version (amd64) and i don't want that because then i will not be able to use my wlan card.

Any ideas what i could do so i can do a stage1 install on this notebook?

Thanks

smonijhay1 · Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I thought the broadcom drivers were supported in the latest kernel. Have you checked the kernel first to see if your particular driver was there?
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djm · Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:36 pm Post subject:

Have you tried doing modprobe bcm57xx or modprobe bcm5700?

lsmod will tell you what modules have been loaded though, so try running that first and see what it says
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cyrillic · Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:50 pm Post subject: