General Disarray

badgers · l33t Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 680 Location: Madison, WI

I downloaded and built the bcm4400.o module for my NIC.
When I boot gentoo it reads that eth0 failed

when I do insmod bcm4400.o and then dhcpcd eth0 I get my network up and running.

the bcm4400.o is in a temp directory right now because that is where I had placed the source.

1) where do I copy the file to for the system to see it?
2) how do I tell the system to use this by default?

3)this may be more important. During boot I get a warning that devfs is not in the kernel(something to this effect I am not sure what the warning is and right now the system is emerging kde(1.5 hrs so far) so I can't tell you exactly.

Where is this option? I did follow the instructions and I swear I selected everything I was instructed to. PS I am using ReiserFS for my / partion.

hda1 ext2 boot
hda2 xfs /
hda3 swap

redhat 9 was on here before but I erased the root to build gentoo. I had gentoo mkreiserfs

sorry to be such a bother but I set this machine up to try and learn linux. I am not very sure how to proceed.
PS
ABit KD7-S(SATA is disabled in bios because I don't have an SATA drive)
XP 2500 barton core
Nvidia GF4 MX 420 video card.
HDA is a maxtor 30 gig
HDC is a Mitsumi CD-RW

any help is appreciated.
thank you for your time and have a good day
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Abit KD7-S
Athlon XP2500+
166mHz FSB
512 Meg PC3200 Ram running at 166mHz
LiteOn DVD dual Layer burner(hdc)

2.6.17 Suspend2 kernel with no scsi support

meowsqueak · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject:

1.
- Download the bcm4400 source (the latest version is 2.0.2 and this is superior to the vanilla linux driver).
- untar the source
- cd bcm4400-2.0.2/src
- type 'make'
- as root, type 'make install'

2.
- add 'bcm4400' to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.X
- reboot or type as root 'update-modules; depmod -a; modprobe bcm4400'
- if you didn't reboot, you'll need to run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start'

3.
- make sure you have CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y and CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y in your /usr/src/linux/.config file. These should not be commented out or have 'm' instead of 'y'.

Hope this helps - come back if you need more pointers

badgers · l33t Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 680 Location: Madison, WI

the current bcm version is 2.05
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Abit KD7-S
Athlon XP2500+
166mHz FSB
512 Meg PC3200 Ram running at 166mHz
LiteOn DVD dual Layer burner(hdc)

2.6.17 Suspend2 kernel with no scsi support

meowsqueak · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:53 pm Post subject:

2.05? Do you mean 2.0.5? Excellent

. I stand corrected.