[ltp] G40 Series Internal Ethernet Adapter

Frederic Herman linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:38:54 -0600


Pam Huntley wrote:

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>>I got the bcm570 driver and built it.  When I try to load it with
>>insmod, it fails to load with:
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>>Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-18.9/kernel/drivers/net/bcm5700.o
>>/lib/modules/2.4.20-18.9/kernel/drivers/net/bcm5700.o: init_module: No
>>such device
>>Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
>>including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>>     You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
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>>Any ideas?
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>Hmmm... it looks like the right version of the driver on their website,
>I'll double check.
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>What version of Linux are you using?  Which package did you get -  the rpm
>or the tarball?  What does 'dmesg' say?  I'm assuming when you run lspci,
>you see an unknown ethernet controller with PCI ID 170d?
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>Thanks,
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>Pam
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I built the driver using the tarball.  Is there anything else that I 
should have done?

Fred