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deadpink

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Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 8

SOLVED / returning to Arch, Broadcom Ethernet Issues

am looking to return to arch after 1 1/2 year absence, I have a mid 2010 mac mini I'd like to put arch on however I cannot get wired ethernet working at all. After  passing kernel options noapic irqpoll acpi=off  the cd boots fine ( the only way to get to install menu) however dchpcd fails to acquire network.

OSX reports the following
Kext name: AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext
Firmware version: 57765-a1.20, 0x9dc4060b

Odd Fact, arch linux in osx virtual machine says ethernet controller is Intel 82540EM   I don't understand that one...

Other posts have suggested modprobe broadcom & tg3 but still nothing and most broadcom help is wireless related which I don't use. After a year away from linux I feel like a clueless newbie all over again and it's frustrating beyond belief. If anyone has suggestions as what I can do via modules and other steps in sequence to get this running your help would be beyond appreciated.  As A side note, the archbang cd boots fine without kernel options however still no ethernet, and the debian ( ugh!) testing cd does find the ethernet connection but I don't know how to find out what it is using or doing to achieve that….. Any ideas ???

Fix was simply dropping old ip address and obtaining a new one,  dunno why but that solved the problem...

Last edited by deadpink (2012-01-03 16:47:00)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: SOLVED / returning to Arch, Broadcom Ethernet Issues

tg3 is indeed the correct driver, but you wouldn't be the first one who has issues with it. No idea how to help though.

Oh, and nothing odd about the virtual machine. Those present virtual hardware to the system, in this case a virtual Intel card.

Last edited by Gusar (2011-12-29 23:23:06)

deadpink

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Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 8

Re: SOLVED / returning to Arch, Broadcom Ethernet Issues

thanks Gusar, I sorta thought the intel thing was an emulation of some sort.  I'm still stuck without a net connection and  I may have to go with either Debian or or worse yet opensuse as they are they only 2 that seem to recognize the card on cd boot... really bummed because arch was my home for so long dating back to the 0.7 days ...

/dev/zero

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: SOLVED / returning to Arch, Broadcom Ethernet Issues

What does this give?

ip link

deadpink

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Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 8

Re: SOLVED / returning to Arch, Broadcom Ethernet Issues

thanks /dev/zero

ip link returns the following

2:  eth0: <BROADCOM, MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop stare DOWN qlen 1000link /ether c4:2c:03:07:be:5d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

everytime the cd runs dhcpcd it fails,

/dev/zero

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: SOLVED / returning to Arch, Broadcom Ethernet Issues

I predict that if you run,

sudo ip link set dev eth0 up

things might start working after that.

deadpink

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Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 8

Re: SOLVED / returning to Arch, Broadcom Ethernet Issues

hey there dev/zero  well I managed to solve the connection issue easily enough, I remembered from my earlier days that after a new install I sometimes had to get a new ip addy for anything to work upon first reboot, so I unplugged the modem for 2 hrs, booted the cd, loaded the module and presto! hahahahaha...  dunno why that happens but all's good now, thanks ..   will now mark this as solved....