Eth0 Broadcom Gigabit is not seen

[kenyan75]

I'm new with Linux
My Distro is Debian 3.1r2 (tried also with r4)
my kernel seems to be 2.4.27
When I boot on CD the ethernet card is not seen.
I know I should force to use tg3 driver but it doesn't work neither...
And the message I have if I try to make an
ifup eth0
I get
SCIOCSIFADDR: no such device

I tried also
insmod tg3 in the good directory and the I got
unresolved symbol release_firmware_R33934162
unresolved symbol request_firmware_R38ce5074

any idea?
thanks

[soccercisco]

Can you post the output of lspci | tail ?

Cheers,

[kenyan75]

Ethernet controller : Broadcom Corporation : Unknown device 1600 (rev 02)

[soccercisco]

yep my friend... you are missing some drivers

do you know the model of the Ethernet card?

Cheers

[kenyan75]

yes
Brodacom Netxtrem 57xx Gigabit

[soccercisco]

2 options...

1) You have the Linux drivers for your card here
http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethe...ic/netlink.php
post for help if you cannot configure this...


2) If that doesn't work you could try the Windows drivers. You need to obtain the .inf and .sys files after downloading the windows package from the link above... after that you can follow the straight forward instructions for ndiswrapper (you need to install it first, so do apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils)

Begin at the section labeled "Install Windows driver"
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation


Cheers

[kenyan75]

to be honnest I've not yet tried to recompiled the driver...but what I've done is to do an
install tg3.o since the driver is with my distro but it doesn't work
As for windows, this card is seen under windows xp (i m on a dual boot)

[soccercisco]

chances are that the driver online is a newer version


why don't you try the ndisweppaer method (since you already have the drivers on your Windows partition).

[kenyan75]

soory but...

what is it?