Re: Broadcom 4401 problem

From: Bruce Guenter
Date: Mon Aug 23 2004 - 11:02:53 EST


On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:17:34AM +0300, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> Could you try the driver from http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~pp/b44-095-2.tgz ,
> which has some fixes that have been submitted but not yet merged.

Thanks. This source has some problems. When compiling, I get multiple
errors regarding PCI_DEVICE_ID_BCM4713 being undefined:
/root/b44/b44.c:94: error: `PCI_DEVICE_ID_BCM4713' undeclared here (not in a function)
etc Is this missing a header file or some other update?

In order to try to get it to compile, I removed the PCI table entry for
the BCM4713 and made every conditional that depends on it false (by
removing the appropriate code). However, when trying to ifconfig the
interface I get:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot allocate memory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot allocate memory

> If that
> doesn't help, the broadcom driver
> ( http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php ) might be
> worth a try.

The Broadcom Linux driver version 3.0.7 also locks up on me, but it
doesn't support "ethtool -A", so I have to stop and start the interface
completely to get it working again.

> Also if you have more than 1Gb of memory, booting with mem=1024m
> might help

Nope. 512MB RAM.
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