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Topic: Cable Modem, Trouble getting online with DSL

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Quaoar

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Posted: Oct. 02 2004,16:06

Quote (cbagger01 @ Oct. 01 2004,14:01)

LAN cable is usually the best approach. Most cable modems use DHCP (Obtain IP address automatically) for their Internet settings.

Okay, I used "dmesg | more" and read through the list, it didn't mention anything about network or eth0 or anything like that.

I tried pinging both 207.46.245.156 and 216.109.117.206 and it failed both times.

So, I decided to try with the USB cable instead of the LAN cable, and now it works. Thanks for all the help so far, but does anyone have an idea as to why it works with one but not the other?

cbagger01

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Posted: Oct. 02 2004,16:40

My guess is that there is a problem with the driver for your Ethernet LAN card.

What is the manufacturer and model number of your LAN card? If you have windows up and running it should be listed in the Device Manager. Otherwise, you can look it up in knoppix by typing "lspci | more" inside an xterminal.

DSL does not come with lspci. However, if you install the alsadebs extension you will be able to run lspci from DSL.

Quaoar

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Posted: Oct. 02 2004,18:17

Quote (cbagger01 @ Oct. 02 2004,12:40)

What is the manufacturer and model number of your LAN card?

According to Window's it's a Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller.

The system is a Dell Inspiron 8500, with a P4 Mobile Processor if that helps any.

cbagger01

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Posted: Oct. 02 2004,18:43

It sounds like you need the Broadcom 440x network driver, bcm4400

My guess is that it is probably not on DSL but is on your version of knoppix.

Try:

sudo modprobe bcm4400

in an xterm and see if it installs without error. If so, then run the networking config script in the control panel.

Otherwise, you will need to grab the file bcm4400.o (NOT bcm4400.ko) from the knoppix 3.4 dated 5/17/2004 and copy it over to your DSL system. It is probably located somewhere like /lib/modules/kernel/2.4.26-xfs/net/bcm4400 This is probably not exactly the correct path but you get the idea.

If this file is not contained inside that version of knoppix, your only recourse for Linux drivers is to compile the driver yourself from source using the *.tar.gz file that is provided by the manufacturer. You will need a hard disk install + the gcc1 compiler DSL extension in order to do this.

Also, you might be able to get it to work by using the Microsoft Windows driver files and the program ndiswrapper which is now included in the latest version of DSL (0.8.2).

Or you can just keep using the USB port :-)

Good Luck.

ke4nt1

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Posted: Oct. 02 2004,22:33

I thought you had it nailed, CB..
You figured it out anyway..

I was rootin' for ya' !

I checked the ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net site ..
They have several broadcom chipsets listed, but not the 44xx
Lots of 43xx's and 943xx's , though ..
I don't know how dated the info listed is ..

Let us know if the Windows drivers work with the ndiswrapper ..
You'll need the correct .inf and .sys files for your card ..
Most of the driver CD's I've looked at so far have many sets to choose from.
Perhaps you could check your properties in System of your XP install
for the correct network card driver names..

73
ke4nt

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