[dundee] Install woes

[gordon dunlop]

On 4 February 2010 14:51, Colin Brough <Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:

> Any local insights into this one?
>
> Just got my shiny new Dell Inspiron 570, 6Gb RAM,  AMD AMD Phenom II
> X4 820 processor, nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics...
>
> First of all had a mental abberation and installed Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit
> via CD. Apparently OK (though obviously won't see all the RAM), but
> doesn't detect the network card - though it is listed by "lshw" as:
>
>           *-network UNCLAIMED
>                description: Ethernet controller
>                product: NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
>                vendor: Broadcom Corporation
>                physical id: 0
>                bus info: pci at 0000:02:00.0
>                version: 01
>                width: 64 bits
>                clock: 33MHz
>                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
>                configuration: latency=0
>                resources: memory:febf0000-febfffff
>
>
> 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.

1. Modify the file etc/rc.local file in Ubuntu/Debian or etc/rc.4/rc.local
in Redhat systems to:
 modprobe -r tg3
 modprobe broadcom
 modprobe tg3

2. Create a /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf if it does does not already exist and
add the line
 install tg3  /sbin/modprobe broadcom; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install tg3

Here is the Redhat bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525966

I hope that this solves the network problem.

Gordon


But any other suggestions *very* gratefully received!!
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
>
> Colin
>
> Rev Colin Brough
> Minister
> Fintry Parish Church of Scotland, Dundee
> Scottish Charity Number: SC020742
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