Thanks guys, OK should have included a bit more information. First of all I seem to have it working via Yast, Kalos suggested changing the card config, so I had a bash - don't think I did it the way I was advised (I am new to yast), but I used the advance nic config to specify a driver of bcm5700. Since I come from FC2, it still has a /etc/modules.conf - I now know it's just for backward compat. I put the file there myself. My SuSe is 9.1 Pro, with 2.6 kernel, fresh install. ifup/ifdown eth0 still produces : eth0 device:Broadcom Corportion: Unkown device 170d (rev 01) But it works! Unfortunately the laptop still locks when booted outside of failsafe mode, but now I can get details - it seems to stop when loading the ali5451 sound driver. Thanks again for your help, Neil. On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 16:59, Kalos Bonasia wrote:
Alle 17:40, lunedì 11 ottobre 2004, Anders Johansson ha scritto:
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
the bcm5700 it the right driver, but delete the automatically configuration of ethernet nic via yast and re run the discovery. in my suse linux pro 9.1 and ibm thinkpad G40 I've the same nic.
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