Will someone, with a ADM64 CPU compile a driver for me??

[mariourk]

Hi,

Iam trying to to install Gentoo on my new ADM64 pc.
The problem is that I can't get my networkcard running.
To get it running I need a driver. I already found this one but
when I comile it on my laptop and copy it to a floppy, I can load it during the Gentoo
installation because the architecture is not good.
Will someone download the driver, compile it for me and post the bcm5700.o file
somewhere?

The driver can be downloaded here (about 700kb)
http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/driver- ... 570x-Linux

Thanks a lot

[Config]

I'm quite tempted to say this but it seems this driver hasn't been ported yet to the 2.6 kernel series. I googled around but I found no patch.
If you can find one, I'll happily compile it for you.

Good luck

UPDATE: Sorry - the tarball provides a patch - but it's quite nasti to get it do the patching... I'll repost later...

[scoobydu]

Hi,

Iam trying to to install Gentoo on my new ADM64 pc.
The problem is that I can't get my networkcard running.
To get it running I need a driver. I already found this one but
when I comile it on my laptop and copy it to a floppy, I can load it during the Gentoo
installation because the architecture is not good.
Will someone download the driver, compile it for me and post the bcm5700.o file
somewhere?

The driver can be downloaded here (about 700kb)
http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/driver- ... 570x-Linux

Thanks a lot

The bcm5700 is supported out of the box with the amd64 livecd's.

Really confused what you are trying to do here .... laptops etc ..

In your kernel look under the Ethernet (1000 Mbit) section and you should have the Tigon3 and bcm5700 driver options.

scooby

ps from the technotes:

The bcm/tigon3 network driver;
Many Opteron motherboards come with a built-in on-board network chip manufactured by Broadcom. We have provided both the standard in-kernel tg3 driver as well as the bcm5700 driver to support this card. The tg3 driver should be used if possible, as it is community-supported, and the bcm5700 driver only exists to aide those who have trouble with tg3.

[mariourk]

I tried to modprobe the tg3.o module but, if I do so, I get insmod errors. (No such device)
The bcm5700 module cn't be found:

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modprobe: Can't locate module bcm5700

The onboard chip I have is the "Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5788"

[scoobydu]

I tried to modprobe the tg3.o module but, if I do so, I get insmod errors. (No such device)
The bcm5700 module cn't be found:

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modprobe: Can't locate module bcm5700

The onboard chip I have is the "Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5788"

Try the bcm5700 built into the kernel, and then dmesg to see what boot errors you get.

I'm not at a linux machine so can't check, but if you check the bcm5700 source (within your current kernel tree) you can see if your card is defined. If not then the download from broadcom has the 2.6 kernel patch in for the bcm5700 driver (so you could update what is in your current kernel)

I'd be surprised if the latest version hadn't already been merged into the 2.6.3 release candidates that are current at the moment.