Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030328AbWEYTWU (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 15:22:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030363AbWEYTWU (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 15:22:20 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:57830 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030328AbWEYTWT (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 15:22:19 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: b44 driver issues? Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:21:54 -0700 Organization: OSDL Message-ID: <20060525122154.3270e4bd@localhost.localdomain> References: <200605251919.00614.dj@david-web.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: build.pdx.osdl.net 1148584911 3260 10.8.0.54 (25 May 2006 19:21:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@osdl.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 19:21:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.0 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 28 On Thu, 25 May 2006 19:19:00 +0100 David Johnson 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/