On Friday 15 October 2004 13:22, Rob wrote:

make install Can you please provide the output of iwconfig? it should show something if your module has been loaded & stuff :)

Cheers, L

I have a dell inspiron 8500 which has a broadcom built in nic. I switched to SuSE partly because unlike FC1, 9.1 pro recognized the card OOB flawlessly. Maybe you are having some other problem. I don't think you should have had to obtain build and install the module. This is from my /var/log/messages: Oct 14 18:30:17 cmblap kernel: b44.c:v0.94 (May 4, 2004) Oct 14 18:30:17 cmblap kernel: eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0b:db:99:9a:6c Oct 14 18:30:17 cmblap kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0002) Are you sure that you actually have a broadcom nic? Charly Baker On Friday October 15 2004 8:22 am, Rob wrote:

I just got in this laptop and wanted to run suse on it. I was able to get mostly everything working but the 10/100 Broadcom 440x network card.

After performing some google on it, I went to broadcom.com and downloaded the linux drivers. Installed make, gcc, and the kernel source for suse.

via the readme, performed this actions with no failures:

1. Create a directory and extract the files:

tar xvzf bcm4400-<version>.tar.gz

2. Build the driver bcm4400.o as a loadable module for the running kernel:

cd src make

3. Test the driver by loading it:

insmod bcm4400.o

4. Install the driver and man page:

make install

My problem is the network card is still not responding. I am sure I am just missing some easy, but can not figure out what.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Rob