HOWTO: Install Broadcom 440x

[RobWak]

I have installed RedHat 9 on a dual boot with Windows XP

Everything works fine with windows but in RedHat I have no network LAN nor WLAN. I would like to start with the more basic LAN card install.

With Linux I am a 100% newbie and everything that I have found to help me install this driver seems to be over my head, since I keep failing miserably.

The Linux drivers I found seem to have both RPM and Tar. They also came with a readme file that gave me directions but with the RPM attempted install, I seem to need some rpm-build package installed that I cannot seem to find out how to install that. So I went to the Tar install and got to a point that seemed to indicate that I did not have GCC installed and once again I could not find out how to install that.

Any baby steps would be greatly appreciated!

[valemon]

If you don't have the gcc install you cannot compile the packages. So go to your package manager and select as an installation source your Redhat cd. Gcc is included in the cd and you will easily get it installed

[RobWak]

So go to your package manager and select as an installation source your Redhat cd.

How do I go to my package manager? Or more specifically, what would the syntax be? I have no idea how to do what you suggested.

[valemon]

Alright, check this link. The redhat installation cd must be added as an installation source. If it isn't check this to add it.
Also you can check this one for installing packages.

[RobWak]

Ok - Thank you for your help. I actually accidentally came across a/the package manager. When you pointed me to the CD to install it from, I loaded the Redhat Disk 1 into the drive and it asked me about running the autorun so I clicked Run and it opened the Package Manager to install RPM packages and I was able to find the one that mentioned that it would install rpm-build and GCC. Unfortunately, I am coming across another issue now. Some error on the build. I don't have the error available to post right now. I will post later.

Again, thank you for your help so far!

[RobWak]

I ran "rpmbuild -bb SPECS/b44.spec"

What was returned was 170 lines of stuff that ended with:

b44.c:129: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
b44.c:151: 'ETH_GSTRING_LEN' undeclared here (not in a function)
b44.c:151: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
make: *** [b44.o] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.98412 (%build)

RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.98412 (%build)


Any ideas of what else I can pull from the log that would help fix this issue? I have no way to copy and paste the 170 lines in here. I have no network connection as I am attempting to install the drivers for my LAN card.

The instructions that I am following are from the ReadMe.txt file found with the Linux drivers I pulled from Broadcom's site for this 440x card.

I don't know if this helps but in the Network Configuration no hardware is shown and my broadcom 440x in not in the list of cards.

[valemon]

I don't know the meaning of the output. I took a look at the howto and you cannot get the wifi working without the "rpmbuild -bb SPECS/b44.spec"
If you cannot go further with this an other option is ndiswrapper.
Post if any problems or progress