Marc, I am 100% positive I am now running FC3. I downloaded it through a mirror site from fedora. Anyways I was able to again to get the install to go smooth by disabling the eth0. I followed your instructions by downloading the patch and the instructions for installing it. When I went to compile it this time I got a long list of errors they were listed from 911 to over 1300. (Not sequential, they skipped numbers) Here is a sample of the errors I did receive. /root/b44/b44.c: 976: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type. /root/b44/b44.c: In function 'b44_free_rings': /root/b44/b44.c: In function 'b44_change_mtu': /root/b44/b44.c: In function 'b44_init_rings': /root/b44/b44.c: In function 'b44_free_consistent': /root/b44/b44.c: In function 'b44_allow_consistant': /root/b44/b44.c: In function 'b44_chip_reset': /root/b44/b44.c: In function '_b44_set_mac_addr': /root/b44/b44.c: In function 'b44_init_hw': Make [1] *** [/root/b44/b44.0] Error 1. Make: *** [_module_/root/b44> Error 2. Make: leaving directory /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.541/build Hey help would be greatly appreciated Thanks Mathew -----Original Message----- From: Mathew S. Nowend [mailto:mathewnowend@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 7:58 AM To: MSchwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'For users of Fedora Core releases' Cc: mathewnowend@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Can someone please help I have been stuck for days. After I extract the b44-bk-tgz file and extract it it makes the b44 file. I go into that file and chmod +x compile and run it. Then I run the compile executable and this is the error I get. /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.541/build/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 11: gcc: command not found. /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.541/build/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 12: gcc: command not found. Cc [M] /root/b44/b44.0 Make [1] *** [_module_/root/b44]error 2 Make: leaving dir 'lib/modules/2.6.8-1.541/build' Thanks Mathew -----Original Message----- From: Marc Schwartz [mailto:MSchwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 8:09 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Cc: Mathew S. Nowend Subject: RE: Can someone please help I have been stuck for days. On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 19:34 -0500, Mathew S. Nowend wrote: > Okay I am able to boot into FC3. I did try to go into ispci and it said it > didn't exist. It is a intergrated NIC BCM 4401 I did follow the link from > below and I don't know where to get the kernel to update mine and then I do > not know how to replace it. > > Mathew Mathew, First, the command that I mentioned is lspci (the first character is a lower case "L"). For the fix, download Pekka's patch file at: http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~pp/b44-bk.tgz The above is listed in comment #66 on the bugzilla page that I indicated earlier: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118165 Extract the above file into a folder. The main folder for the patch files will be called "b44". Change into that directory. Now change the mode of the file called 'compile' so that it is executable" chmod +x compile Now, run that command: ./compile If the compile completes successfully, the result will be a series of new files, but the one of interest is called 'b44.ko'. Now (as root) copy that file to the kernel drivers directory: cp b44.ko /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/kernel/drivers/net/b44.ko You will likely be prompted to overwrite the existing file. Yes, you do want to do this. Now, you need to manually unload the current b44 module and then reload the new one. Also done as root: rmmod b44 then modprobe b44 Now, you should be able to configure and use your NIC. If you have any problems with this procedure, post back here. Note, that until this bug is closed, presumably indicating that the patch has found it's way to FC3 via a new kernel update, you will need to repeat the above procedure for any new kernel updates that you install. So save this e-mail and the above patch files. You may want to add your e-mail address to the cc: for the above Bugzilla report so that you can keep track of any progress. HTH, Marc Schwartz
