Re: Broadcom 4400 series nic deactivated after installing FC 6

Fedora, by nature, is more leading edge, less stable than the regular
Red Hat stuff.  We tend to forget that.  Yes, I think updating or
upgrading it can do that.  Hope you backed up your stuff before.  Maybe
 "un-yumming" can bring the functionality back?


Rich




On my dell inspiron 1505, NIC had worked fine, it stopped working all
of a sudden, couldnt really predict any reason.
   
  What was I doing? --- Was trying for maximum plugins thru yum, guess
yum"ing" did this, can this ?

&quot;rich3800(a)netzero.net&quot; <rich3800(a)netzero.net&gt; wrote:
  I thought it was a Fedora issue but I tried Opensuse 10.2 running Xen
on the same machine and it had the same problem. Next to it, I had a
Dell Dimension 4400 desktop running FC 6 with Xen, accessing the
Internet just fine. 




On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 01:24 -0800, Vinay Bhardwaj wrote:
>  yeah I have had the same issue, tried with non - xen and infact
> ubuntu
>  as well, NIC has stopped working on Linux completely while works
>  absolutely fine on Windows. BTW I have a dual boot.  
Do you also have Dell Inspiron? Do I understand it correctly that the
network didn't work for you even with non-xen kernels?

Jindrich

>  Jindrich Novy wrote: 
>  On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 21:14 +0000, rich3800(a)netzero.net wrote:
>  > After installing Fedora Core 6 on my Dell Inspiron 9100, I
>  lose
>  > Internet access, which was working during the install. What
>  could be
>  > wrong? The onboard nic is Broadcom 4400-based or similar.
>  
>  Have you tried to use non-xen kernel? The b44 module is known
>  not
>  functional with xen kernels (it won't work if you use
>  2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen and previous kernels)
>  
>  For reference please have a look at:
>  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/208242
>  
>  One user complains that the b44 module still doesn't work for
>  him with
>  Dell Inspiron 6000 with the new kernel containing the fix:
>  
>  
http://people.redhat.com/sct/packages/kernel/kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2857.4.2...
>  
>  even though it works almost for all other notebooks with
>  Broadcom (HP in
>  my case) so it seems like the whole Dell Inspiron series is
>  somehow
>  special..
>  
>  Jindrich