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Posted: Aug. 09 2005,13:32 QUOTE
I've a network card that refuses to work under DSL (booting from a memory stick). It's a Broadcom BCM 5751 Netxtreme gigabit ethernet PCI express:

root@box:~# lspci
...
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 1677 (rev 01)

root@box:~# lspci -n
...
0000:02:00.0 0200: 14e4:1677 (rev 01)

My DSL is the current.iso:

root@box:~# uname -a
Linux box 2.4.26 #1 SMP Sa Apr 17 19:33:42 CEST 2004 i686 unknown

The tg3 driver (which some googling suggest may be the solution) fails to load - is my only option to recompile DSL with a 2.6.x kernel? Is there a 2.6.x CVS branch of DSL that I can check out?
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Posted: Aug. 09 2005,13:38 QUOTE
Dont panic. My BROADCOM BCM 4306KFB wireless card is not working too :)
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Posted: Aug. 09 2005,13:58 QUOTE
Looks like:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....00.info

.. should do the trick.
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Posted: Aug. 09 2005,14:47 QUOTE
Works perfectly. Here's what you do:

Download: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub.....tar.gz

.. and copy it to your memory stick (in my case)

Boot into DSL - bring up the menu (right mouse click)
Select 'myDSL -> initialize Broadcom 5700'
Double click on 'DSLpanel' (on the desktop)
Select 'Netcardconfig'

For my setup - 'Use DHCP broadcast?' gives me network.

Hope this helps someone else..
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