BCM 4401 not working on 3.2 and 3.3RC1

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: BCM 4401 not working on 3.2 and 3.3RC1
started by: Plak

Posted by Plak on Mar. 05 2007,09:08

Hi,

I got a few Acer Travelmate 4500 for testing.
TravelMate 4501WLMi and 4502WLMi.
On both of those I can not get the onboard Broadcom BCM4401 NIC working.

lspci gets me:
0000:02:02.2 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation DCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)

compiling the b44 module by hand from the sources does not help as well (I do not remember if it gives me the same error or just does not work).

With the stock DSL 3.2 and 3.3RC1 the following happens.
During "Autoconfiguring Devices" in bootup I get the following output:

--snip--
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-2
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-2
Done.
--snip--

The next lines are interesting:

--snip--
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010[<f8c29183>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax: f72fa400 ebx:00000000 ecx: f7f61170 edx: f7f61180
esi: f8c2f044 edi: 00000000 ebp: f7f61170 esp: f7255e84
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss:0018
Process modprobe.moduti (pid: 268, stackpage=f7255000)
Stack: lots of numbers here
Call Trace: more numbers here
Code: 8b 53 24 83 7a 08 00 75 0c 80 a0 1e 02 00 00 fb e9 b4 00 00
--snip--

with DSL-N 01RC4 and KNOPPIX 5.0.1 the interface works.

any help with this would be great.
thans
Plak