Which driver to use for BroardCom nic on Asus A7V8X motherboard
I have just bought the new Asus A7V8X AMD XP motherboard. It has a build-in BroadCom lan adapter. Any ideas about which driver to use. ------------------------------------------------- Thanks in advance Bo Jacobsen
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 12:29, Bo Jacobsen wrote:
I have just bought the new Asus A7V8X AMD XP motherboard. It has a build-in BroadCom lan adapter.
Any ideas about which driver to use.
------------------------------------------------- Thanks in advance Bo Jacobsen =====================
Bo, Did you check the SuSE hardware database for this nic? Does SuSE not recognize nor set it up when you install the OS? I am not familar with this particular brand, so can't help beyond the questions I pose to you above. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 12:29, Bo Jacobsen wrote:
I have just bought the new Asus A7V8X AMD XP motherboard. It has a build-in BroadCom lan adapter.
Any ideas about which driver to use.
------------------------------------------------- Thanks in advance Bo Jacobsen =====================
Bo, Did you check the SuSE hardware database for this nic? Does SuSE not recognize nor set it up when you install the OS? I am not familar with this particular brand, so can't help beyond the questions I pose to you above.
The SuSE hardware database doesn't even know of the vendor BroadCom. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 20:21, Bo Jacobsen wrote:
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 12:29, Bo Jacobsen wrote:
I have just bought the new Asus A7V8X AMD XP motherboard. It has a build-in BroadCom lan adapter.
Any ideas about which driver to use.
------------------------------------------------- Thanks in advance Bo Jacobsen =====================
Well, I briefly checked the LKLM for this and found that there is a Tigon3 driver that perhaps suitable. I believe it came in to the kernel sometime arounf 2.4.18. /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/tg3.c It seems to be work in progress so good luck! Cheers! /Adam
Bo, Did you check the SuSE hardware database for this nic? Does SuSE not recognize nor set it up when you install the OS? I am not familar with this particular brand, so can't help beyond the questions I pose to you above.
The SuSE hardware database doesn't even know of the vendor BroadCom.
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Sorry for not providing more info.
I am testing the motherboard using the SuSE kernel 2.4.19-16. I have compiled
all the Broadcom drivers in the kernel but they won't work. The kernel only has drivers
for Broadcom BCM5700 and Trigon3, both are 1000Mbit nics. The nic on the
Asus A7V8X motherboard is the BCM4401 10/100 Mbit chip.
I have not yet tested all the nic drivers in the kernel, but the most obvious ones do not working.
My hopes were that some one else had already found the light.
Bo
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On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 20:21, Bo Jacobsen wrote:
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 12:29, Bo Jacobsen wrote:
I have just bought the new Asus A7V8X AMD XP motherboard. It has a build-in BroadCom lan adapter.
Any ideas about which driver to use.
------------------------------------------------- Thanks in advance Bo Jacobsen =====================
Well, I briefly checked the LKLM for this and found that there is a Tigon3 driver that perhaps suitable. I believe it came in to the kernel sometime arounf 2.4.18.
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/tg3.c
It seems to be work in progress so good luck! Cheers! /Adam
Bo, Did you check the SuSE hardware database for this nic? Does SuSE not recognize nor set it up when you install the OS? I am not familar with this particular brand, so can't help beyond the questions I pose to you above.
The SuSE hardware database doesn't even know of the vendor BroadCom.
-- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 21:21, Bo Jacobsen wrote:
Sorry for not providing more info.
I am testing the motherboard using the SuSE kernel 2.4.19-16. I have compiled all the Broadcom drivers in the kernel but they won't work. The kernel only has drivers for Broadcom BCM5700 and Trigon3, both are 1000Mbit nics. The nic on the Asus A7V8X motherboard is the BCM4401 10/100 Mbit chip.
hmm.. I was considering buying this mb myself... according to the following link this new motherboard features a BroadCom 5702 Gigabit Ethernet chip. http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1696&p=3 I didn't even know they shipped the A7V8X with less thn that, if it's just a regular 100-chip I might as well wait a while.... :-/ What does "lspci -vv" show for the device? Did you know it wasn't the gigabit chip on it? /Adam
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On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 21:21, Bo Jacobsen wrote:
Sorry for not providing more info.
I am testing the motherboard using the SuSE kernel 2.4.19-16. I have compiled all the Broadcom drivers in the kernel but they won't work. The kernel only has drivers for Broadcom BCM5700 and Trigon3, both are 1000Mbit nics. The nic on the Asus A7V8X motherboard is the BCM4401 10/100 Mbit chip.
hmm.. I was considering buying this mb myself... according to the following link this new motherboard features a BroadCom 5702 Gigabit Ethernet chip.
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1696&p=3
I didn't even know they shipped the A7V8X with less thn that, if it's just a regular 100-chip I might as well wait a while.... :-/
What does "lspci -vv" show for the device? It shows the following:
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation: Unknown device 4401 (rev 01) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80a8 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort+ Did you know it wasn't the gigabit chip on it?
Yes, gigabit is optional on this board, I just needed a 10/100 interface.
On 11 Sep 2002, Adam Johansson wrote:
Well, I briefly checked the LKLM for this and found that there is a Tigon3 driver that perhaps suitable. I believe it came in to the kernel sometime arounf 2.4.18.
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/tg3.c
A little more info here; http://old.lwn.net/2002/0228/a/tigon.php3 Gerald
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