Latitude D800 onboard NIC with RedHat 9

Are you sure, ist an bcm5700? ...

At least in my I8500 I have a bcm4400 inside, and I got it working with RH9, by compiling the module from source, without trouble ...

Now I have here a working linux, that I can use to bootstrap my own version...

I figured it was a Broadcom 570x since that's what the Windows driver says. I have now tried both the bcm5700.o and the bcm4400.o drivers and neither work. I compiled both from source.

Thanks anyway.

I have a 600m which also has the broadcom 5700 chip -- I compiled with the Tigon 2 driver in the kernel and it works fine, although I haven't been able to test gigabit speeds. 

I have also tried the tg3.o driver (Broadcom Tigon3) but it also fails. I havent seen a Tigon2 driver.

The D800 onboard NIC is a Broadcom bcm5700.

After no luck with some drivers I found on some part of the dell support site, I started digging around on google.

Found the following which worked for me, YMMV.

I download the drivers from http://www.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=PRL-DLS533.

get the RHLinux_b570x.zip file and unzip it.

tar vfxz bcm5700-5.0.16.tar.gz
cd src
make
insmod ./bcm5700.o (to test)
make install
depmod -a

Then setup your network normally.
I'm using RedHat 9 with the 2.4.20-9 kernel w/APCI patches.

Good luck,

-datapace

Good going. Thanks for the info it worked great.

Using that link, i downloaded the RH_Linux driver file, opened it to find a src RPM as well as the tar.gz file you mentioned.

(http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/Socket604/PRL-DLS533/Broadcom%20570x/RHLinux_b570x.zip)

I used:

# rpm -i bcm5700-5.0.16-1.src.rpm
# cd /usr/src/redhat
# rpmbuild -bb SPECS/bcm5700.spec
# rpm -i RPMS/bcm5700-5.0.16-1.rpm

Then configure the network using whichever tool you want and reboot. Worked for me.

Ok im a newbie to Linux really new to it. i dont know any commands or anything can someone explain to me how to install the bcm 440. this are the ones i have. Im using RH 9. thank you for the help. and if anyone can help me with commands or have a PDF file or anything like that with alot of command and detials on what the command does i  will really own you. thank you