Doug McGarrett wrote:
Hello, all--
My last message said that maybe I didn't have Suse running on this machine. Now I'm absolutely sure I did. Before I bought this MOBO--ASUS P4PE--I checked with people on this list, and they said it worked fine. So I don't understand why I need a new driver at this point in time. There must have been a driver in 9.2 that worked. (I admit that 9.2 itself was not very sturdy, but it worked for a while.) Anyway, I do need the new driver, I guess, if somebody can translate the read-me file into hands-on directions.
The tg3 module in 2.6 kernels supports the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet and the b44 module supports some other (older) Broadcom chips. When I first installed SuSE 9.1 on my laptop, SuSE chose the b44 module instead and this led to network stalls, the tg3 module solved that. "lspci" will tell you what card you have, checking on google, ignore the RedHat 9/2.4 kernel as that's of no consequence (it's tg3.ko for 2.6)..... http://linux0.cs.uaf.edu/archive/msg00100.html says ...... ASUS P4PE works well with RedHat 9. The broadcomm built in ethernet (option) works with the tg3.o driver right out of the box. No special tweaking other than to tell RH9 to use the tg3 for the driver for eth0. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is so simple a problem, there is adequate support in the kernel, SuSE has the module built as standard, "lsmod" would tell you if it's the wrong module being loaded and if we have those 2 bits of information, plus the answer to the question as to whether there is a DHCP server on the network so the box can get a IP address, a solution could easily be found. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks