[leglug-users] notebook networking: Broadcom 440x with kubuntu

[Mohammed Shublaq]

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hello leglug'ers

just an update on my laptop issue; i installed the beta2 version of
k/ubuntu 6.06 dapper and both the wired and wireless ethernet cards are
working now, even the battery :)

any way, any one interested in holding a meeting soon? let's keep things
alive... also, can some one send the minutes of last meeting; we have
tasks to do :)

best~!
mo

Mohammed Shublaq wrote:
> thanks BL for writing that
> 
> i used knoppix4.02 and suse 9.1 liveCD and both of them worked great with
> the wired netword card. so i re-installed ubuntu 5.10 [note that during
> installation, ubuntu recognizes that eth1 is a broadcom 4401 100BaseT card
> and eth0 as IPW2200]. then, i compiled the latest broadcom 4401 driver
> [from here
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php] and
> modprobe'd bcm440, and still it did not work [like by pinging other IP's].
> 
> i'm bringing my lappy to the meeting on Saturday, if some one would have a
> look at it!
> 
> thanks
> mo
> 
> 
> On Tue, April 25, 2006 12:30 am, BashLogic wrote:
>> thought of typing something before going of on vacation,
>>
>> now if you want you can download the tcpdump source files and compile it
>> on
>> your system.
>> you can find it at www.tcpdump.org
>>
>> now there are somethings that need to be cleared,
>> broadcom 97% of the time is a well functioning chipset,
>>
>> you need to tell us now what kind of jam you are experiencing,
>> 1- do you have any data moving?
>> 2- does data move for a while and jam after?
>> 3- have you reompiled the proper driver modules for the nic instead of
>> using
>> the default?
>> 4- have you compared whether this is occuring on an identical system?
>>
>> starting from the bottom,
>>
>> 1- check the chipset version you have and download the correct drivers
>> compile and install
>> 2- make sure you dont have any broken packages, this you can do simply but
>> just testing your whether you can access the network with your wireless
>> interface.
>> 3- manually load the driver with insmod command,
>> 4- manually configure the interface such as: ifconfig eth0
>> 192,168.1.10netmask
>> 255.255.255.0 up
>> 4.5- to make sure that your nic is handshaking properly, use ethtool to
>> set
>> it to fixed 100mb full autoneg off!!!!! and do the same on your hub/switch
>> 5- if you have a gateway to access other ip segments then add it with the
>> route add command.
>> 6- if you have allready got tcpdump to work start it up!
>> 7- test  by performing whatever browsing tasks.www telnet ssh or whatever
>> mean you want and follow up tcpdump.
>>
>> if you have done the above properly and yet it all fails, revert and try
>> knoppix
>> if knoppix is able to use your laptop without issues, then you ubuntu OS
>> is
>> broken
>> if knoppix fail, then your hardware is malfunctioning or requires the
>> model/type specific tweak for the drivers to work normally
>> (i once had a compaq desktop that wouldnt get on the network without a
>> specific brand hub in between and a specific NIC on the system, and even
>> then only at 10mb half duplex.
>> i was not able to get any support from anywhere and i attempted all tweaks
>> of compiling the kernel and drivers but all in vain, after three days of
>> continous struggle i gave up on the hardware only being able to deduce
>> that
>> it had something to do with the bus drivers failling on linux as it worked
>> seamlessly with windows. this was almost 6 years ago and still havent
>> heard
>> of similar cases or what was the actual reason, so it can be your whole
>> distro and it can be your hardware)
>>
>> but start first by testing with a knoppix cd/dvd
>> if all works then you know for sure its your distro that is broken, it can
>> be missing an individual package, it could be wrongly compiled or not
>> compiled against the latest libraries and kernel..
>> or then again it could be the kernel version is not stable with your
>> hardware. trial and error is your friend in order to take a shortcut on
>> this.. knoppix knoppix knoppix....
>>
>> regards
>> -BL-
>>
> 
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