38159 – LiveCD Broadcom 5700 is driver incompatible with the Broadcom 5788 NIC

Bug 38159 - LiveCD Broadcom 5700 is driver incompatible with the Broadcom 5788 NIC

Summary: LiveCD Broadcom 5700 is driver incompatible with the Broadcom 5788 NIC

Status:	RESOLVED LATER

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Release Media
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Bob Johnson (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2004-01-14 04:58 UTC by Daniel Harper
Modified:	2004-01-20 15:51 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Daniel Harper 2004-01-14 04:58:17 UTC

I have an onboard broadcom 5788 NIC, and the driver that is included on the "athlon xp" install CD does not work with this NIC itself. After being forced to do a stage 3 install, I had to patch my kernel with a new updated driver off broadcom's website to allow the NIC to work. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load up liveCD 
2. Attempt to load the bcm5700 driver


Actual Results:  
An error message appears saying there is no device that match's the driver.

Expected Results:  
Loaded the driver perfectly, Recognised my NIC and allowed a stage 1 or 2 
install.

Comment 1 David Westley 2004-01-14 08:07:02 UTC

I have a Broadcom 5788 NIC built-in to my new MSI board and I use the Broadcom tg3 driver in the 2.6 kernel and it works fine (the 2.6 kernel is on latest non-arch specific experimental LiveCD) you just need to download a stage2 tarball afterwards (if that is what you want) which you can do as your NIC now works off of a LiveCD :)

Comment 2 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-20 15:51:55 UTC

This should be fixed in next release