The Dell 370 motherboard appears to have a Broadcom 5751 network card. I have to use 2.4 series kernel, so I chose gentoo at boot. However, network interface was not detected. Attempting to load the tg3 driver using "modprobe tg3" failed with "init_module: No such device". The bcm5700 alternative module is not included. Since network is necessary for further installation, this problem makes it impossible (or so it seems). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot from a LiveCD 2. enter "gentoo" at the prompt 3. enter "modprobe tg3" and "modprobe bcm5700" Actual Results: No networking available (that is, no eth0) Expected Results: Having some module available that would load and work :-) .
Alright... here we go... Which LiveCD was this? Have you tried one of the experimental LiveCDs in /experimental on your local mirror? Have you tried the smp kernel? Have you realized that you don't have to use a 2.4 kernel on the LiveCD to install a 2.4 system?
This seems related to my problem with sx280 dell optiplex. I have gotten a boot CD with Novell ZEN booted .. but no tools to do anything with .. Here are links I found : http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/1749.html which is for Novell Zenworks .. but surely there must be apatch somewhere for the current kernels ?
ok ... there is no drivers for this card on the LiveCD you can however get the net-misc/bcm570x package .. but you need a installed box for it .. I suggest putting the drive in another machine to install off.... thats what I'm doing .. H
net-misc/bcm570x --- the bcm5700 driver has been deprecated in favor of the tg3 driver. Try a 2004.2 LiveCD with the tg3 driver. Also, don't use the "gentoo" kernel, as 2.4 is pooh (I'm serious, 2004.3 is 2.6 only because of this). You can still install a 2.4 kernel on your installed system if you boot from a 2.6 one.
the tg3 driver does not work on the new 570x cards. I only got it working after moving the drive into a working machine . .doing an install there and emerging net-misc/bcm570x dmesg remports: eth0: Broadcom BCM5751 1000Base-T PCI Express found at mem dfcf0000, IRQ 16, node addr 000f1fe15cde eth0: Broadcom BCM5750 Integrated Copper transceiver found eth0: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx Checksum ON, Rx Checksum ON, 802.1Q VLAN ON, TSO ON this card is not supported by the tg3 driver
Even under the SMP kernel?
I tried gentoo-dev-kernel after I installed the box .. still didn't work. had to install the emerge to get it working .
Even gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r1? I'm asking only because 2004.3 is done, sealed, in the can, and on its way to the mirrors, so we can't go around adding anything to it. If it isn't supported in the 2.6.9-r1 versions of gentoo-dev-sources, then it won't be supported on 2004.3, unfortunately.
The test9 version of 2004.3 booted and networked fine for me, as did the SMP kernel tg3 module in 2004.2. My problem is that I have to use a 2.4 kernel on this machine and the tg3 driver there does not load, and the "depricated" but apparently working bcm driver is not included as an option in the kernel configuration. I got an additional network card in the end. Honza
In that case, this is "invalid" because we *only* use a 2.6 kernel on the LiveCD now. As for the 2.4 kernel, what we use on the LiveCD has nothing to do with what you install on your system. You can install a 2.2 kernel using a 2.6-based LiveCD, it doesn't matter, so this really should just be closed. The bcm5700 package was split out of the 2.4 kernel because we decided we did not want to have to maintain the patchset when it was honestly easier to make it a separate package. There's nothing stopping you from using it.
