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df3n5

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Registered: 2009-04-08

Posts: 25

[SOLVED] Network won't work

Hi,

My network card isn't recognised when I boot into the Arch boot cd. I ended up installing fedora on my machine but I would like to have Arch on their as well, is there a way for me to check what network modules I need to load from Fedora?

Thanks,
Jonathan.

Last edited by df3n5 (2011-05-03 16:15:49)

vinayv

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From: Bangalore, India

Registered: 2008-08-11

Posts: 89

Re: [SOLVED] Network won't work

Just run "lspci" command.. This will list all the detected hardware devices on your system. Search for your network card in that output.. It should show you the manufacturer and model.. Can you paste that here?
If you cannot figure it out, paste the output of entire lspci command.. (Note: you can run this command from Fedora or any other linux distro too, not just Arch Linux)

df3n5

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Registered: 2009-04-08

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] Network won't work

Cheers, I always forget commands like that.

Fedora says my ethernet card is a :

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)

Any ideas on how to get this working in Arch? Do I do :

modprobe broadcom

or something like that?

vinayv

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From: Bangalore, India

Registered: 2008-08-11

Posts: 89

Re: [SOLVED] Network won't work

Try "modprobe tg3". If that works, you are lucky..

I had a desktop with similar Broadcom ethernet card at my previous office.. I could not load the tg3 module.. I had to download the sources for tg3 module and build it myself.. (It is simple, just "make" and "make install" commands to build).. The module that I built would load correctly. And if I remember correctly, I had to rebuild the driver everytime the kernel changed!
Hopefully you won't run into such an issue..

df3n5

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Registered: 2009-04-08

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] Network won't work

Thanks for the replies, I got it sorted based on https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110026.

Basically all I did was :

   modprobe -r tg3
   modprobe -r broadcom
   modprobe broadcom
   modprobe tg3

Apparently the order matters.
Then once I installed I put this into the my rc.conf:

MODULES=(broadcom tg3)

And now I have a new Arch work desktop which runs brilliantly.

Thanks for the help, hope this helps someone.