b44 driver issues?

b44 driver issues?

[David Johnson]

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

With Ubuntu's 2.6.12 kernel everything works as expected. I've not tried any 
kernels between 2.6.12 and 2.6.15, but can do so if it'd be helpful.

Anybody else having problems?

Thanks in advance,
David.

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Re: b44 driver issues?

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 25 May 2006 19:19:00 +0100
David Johnson <dj@david-web.co.uk> 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

Re: b44 driver issues?

[Eric Sandall]

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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
> 
> With Ubuntu's 2.6.12 kernel everything works as expected. I've not tried any 
> kernels between 2.6.12 and 2.6.15, but can do so if it'd be helpful.
> 
> Anybody else having problems?

I have it working fine with 2.6.15.6 and prior. The few 2.6.16 kernels I
tested had it working as well.

- -sandalle

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Re: b44 driver issues?

[Mark Lord]

David Johnson wrote:
> 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)

Mmm.. strange.  My 2.6.16.16 kernel says:

 b44.c:v0.97 (Nov 30, 2005)

Where'd you find the v1.00 version?

Cheers

Re: b44 driver issues?

[Mark Lord]

Mark Lord wrote:
> David Johnson wrote:
>>> b44.c:v1.00 (Apr 7, 2006)
> 
> Mmm.. strange.  My 2.6.16.16 kernel says:
> 
> b44.c:v0.97 (Nov 30, 2005)
> 
> Where'd you find the v1.00 version?

Oh, I see it --> in 2.6.17-rc*.

Does the older version give exactly the same results as the new one?

Re: b44 driver issues?

[David Johnson]

On Thursday 25 May 2006 20:21, you wrote:
>
> Did a hotplug script rename it for you.
>

Yes, it did...
<hangs head in shame>

I don't understand why it would do it with one kernel version and not with 
another... just one of those things I guess.

Cheers,
David.

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