On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Wolfgang Gill wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:21:26 -0500 (EST), Peter Teuben wrote > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Michael Schmidt wrote: > > > > > Have you looked to see if your using the same kernel version that the > > > cdrom uses? Also have you tried installing the latest kernel? > > > > yes, sadly all exactly the same in rescue and normall installed version. > > Then upgraded to the latest (2.6.10-1.766), but that also didn't > > make a difference (i believe the tg3 driver was the same version). > > Also tried a few things like without acpi,but nogo. so,still stuck. > > > > I might be some magic incantation of insmod, but i doubt that > > anaconda controls things that closely. So, i suspect it's something > > already running on this laptop that makes an insmod fail on tg3. > > > > peter > > Have you tried downloading the new drivers directly from Broadcom?? > > http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php > > When compiled and installed, you need to change the driver name from tg3 to > bcm57xx (Most probably bcm5700) in your modules.conf (Or modprobe.conf in the > case of FC3). > > I've have a Broadcom 5700 series card in this system (onboard one) and it > works fine with the Broadcom downloaded ones. > > Hope this helps. It sure did the trick, thanks again Wolf. - peter
