Broadcom 4400 series nic deactivated after installing FC 6

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.

[Matej Cepl]

rich3800(a)netzero.net napsal(a):
>  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. 
Take a look at /var/log/messages and the output of dmesg program
(suggestion: use dmesg | less) if you find anything useful there.

Matej

[Jindrich Novy]

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

[Vinay Bhardwaj]

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. 

Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com&gt; 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

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[Jindrich Novy]

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 <jnovy(a)redhat.com&gt; 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
>          
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>  
>  
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