On Monday, 11 October 2004 17.06, Neil Marjoram wrote:
I hope someone can help me, I am a looking around to replace my current distro (FC2) with something a little better, I don't yet no all the ins and outs of Suse so bear with me.
Which version of SuSE is this? Which kernel
Suse looked good.....until....
I've put it onto a test laptop an IBM R40e, which has a Broadcom network interface (out of box kernel module tg3).
The system refuses to connect to the network, an lsmod shows the tg3 module in place, but unused. I read some notes that seemed to tell me to install the bcm5700 module from Broadcom, and rmmod tg3, but I can't get the new module to load. I have added the line :
alias eth0 bcm5700
to the /etc/modules.conf,
This isn't used in 2.6, only in the 2.4 kernels
then I found /etc/modprobe.conf.local and
The fact that you have both leads me to suspect that you have 9.0, is that right?
tried that as well, with both when the system reboots the old tg3 modules is loaded.
I have tried rmmod tg3 and then modprobe bcm5700, this loads the module,
What does it say in /var/log/messages when you do this? What happens if you do "rcnetwork start" or "rcnetwork restart" after loading the bcm5700 module?
but the ethernet adapter is still an unknown device
Where does it say this?
and fails to work. (insmod does not work - it can't find the file)
insmod needs the full path to the file, while modprobe automatically looks in the /lib/modules tree for it