<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 February 2010 14:51, Colin Brough <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Colin.Brough@blueyonder.co.uk">Colin.Brough@blueyonder.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Any local insights into this one?<br>
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Just got my shiny new Dell Inspiron 570, 6Gb RAM, AMD AMD Phenom II<br>
X4 820 processor, nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics...<br>
<br>
First of all had a mental abberation and installed Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit<br>
via CD. Apparently OK (though obviously won't see all the RAM), but<br>
doesn't detect the network card - though it is listed by "lshw" as:<br>
<br>
*-network UNCLAIMED<br>
description: Ethernet controller<br>
product: NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe<br>
vendor: Broadcom Corporation<br>
physical id: 0<br>
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0<br>
version: 01<br>
width: 64 bits<br>
clock: 33MHz<br>
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list<br>
configuration: latency=0<br>
resources: memory:febf0000-febfffff<br>
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<br></blockquote>We will let the Ubuntu boys (plenty of them) on this list help with the
64-bit installer. The problem with your Broadcom ethernet is system
wide on Linux distributions (Broadcom has always been a pain in the
butt). There is a problem where the Broadcom module is not loaded
before the tg3 driver and the workaround can be two solutions.<br>
<br>1. Modify the file etc/rc.local file in Ubuntu/Debian or etc/rc.4/rc.local in Redhat systems to:<br> modprobe -r tg3<br> modprobe broadcom<br> modprobe tg3<br><br>2. Create a /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf if it does does not already exist and add the line<br>
install tg3 /sbin/modprobe broadcom; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install tg3<br><br>Here is the Redhat bug report:<br><br><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525966" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525966</a><br>
<br>I hope that this solves the network problem.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Gordon<br><br><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
But any other suggestions *very* gratefully received!!<br>
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Cheers<br>
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Colin<br>
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Rev Colin Brough<br>
Minister<br>
Fintry Parish Church of Scotland, Dundee<br>
Scottish Charity Number: SC020742<br>
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Colin Brough <a href="mailto:Colin.Brough@blueyonder.co.uk">Colin.Brough@blueyonder.co.uk</a><br>
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