Re: b44 driver issues?

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 25 May 2006 19:19:00 +0100
David Johnson <dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

Did a hotplug script rename it for you.

# ifconfig -a
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