Re: b44 driver issues?

[Eric Sandall <eric@sandall.us>]

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David Johnson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop with a Broadcom BCM4401 network card which 
> uses the b44 driver.
> 
> With recent kernels (I've tested with Ubuntu's 2.6.15,  vanilla 2.6.16.18 and 
> 2.6.17-rc5) the driver loads without error but the interface isn't 
> registered.
> 
> In dmesg:
> b44.c:v1.00 (Apr 7, 2006)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
> eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:11:43:7b:69:ae
> 
> # ifconfig eth0
> eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
> 
> With Ubuntu's 2.6.12 kernel everything works as expected. I've not tried any 
> kernels between 2.6.12 and 2.6.15, but can do so if it'd be helpful.
> 
> Anybody else having problems?

I have it working fine with 2.6.15.6 and prior. The few 2.6.16 kernels I
tested had it working as well.

- -sandalle

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