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blippy

Member

Registered: 2010-11-18

Posts: 38

Broadcom BCM57788 doesn't work

I have a spanking new Vostro 230ST, and I'm trying to install Arch on a partition. I'm not having much luck with the NIC.

If I do lspci, I obtain a line:
   02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)

If I do
   /etc/rc.d/network stop
I obtain
   SIOCDELRT: No such process

If I do
   /etc/rc.d/network start
I obtain
   eth0: unknown interface: No such device
   SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
   ...

The Arch website suggested typing
   hwdetect --show-net
but it reports that the command was not found.

Elsewhere I saw that I should type
   modprobe tg3
   modprobe broadcom
   /etc/rc.d/network restart
but that still didn't help.

I'm not sure what else there is for me to try.

If I type
   lsmod
I obtain the results:
   broadcom     4933  0
   tg3           110710  0
   libphy         13884  2 bradcom,tg3

Some relevant lines in my rc.conf file:
MODULES=()
eth0="eth0 192.168.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(gateway)

Can anyone suggest what I should do? I can connect to the internet via Win 7 and Ubuntu.

Dogmeat

Member

From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: Broadcom BCM57788 doesn't work

Elsewhere I saw that I should type
   modprobe tg3
   modprobe broadcom

It should be

rmmod tg3; modprobe broadcom; modprobe tg3

blippy

Member

Registered: 2010-11-18

Posts: 38

Re: Broadcom BCM57788 doesn't work

Ah, wait a minute. I did
   modprobe -r tg3
   modprobe -r broadcom
   modprobe brodacom
   modprobe tg3

Now I can ping Google. I think it's fussy about the order that the modules are loaded.

OK, so now I've put the following line in rc.conf:
MODULES=(broadcom tg3)
Upon reboot, I get my network up. Phew!