On September 12, 2003 02:50, Damien Solley wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:56, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > > Can anyone gets the Broadcom's nic in the i5100 works with DHCP ? It > > runs fine on static ip but it just timed out when requesting dhcp, it > > can't reach the router. And there's nothing wrong with my router running > > as a dhcp server because all my other machines, all run Debian, can dhcp > > request fine. > > > > > > So if anyone could get this nic works w/ dhcp then there's something > > wrong w/ my linux setting on this particular machine, otherwise, that > > means I have to go buy a pcmcia ethernet card. > > > > > > > > TIA, > > > > > > ThanhVu Nguyen > > I think we have the same Broadcom ethernet in the Inspiron 1100, a > BCM4400 chip. There are two drivers available for the card, the stable > ones from Broadcom (module bcm4400) and the kernel one (module b44 - > still under development). I was using the in kernel one for a while, but > couldn't get it to work when disconnecting-reconnecting to ethernet with > DHCP. The driver would not be able to retrieve an IP address after a > disconnect-reconnect. > I have since moved back to the official Broadcom driver, which works > flawlessly. > What kernel are you using and are you using the in-kernel driver? > Damien > -- >
Same here. Broadcom card works perfectly, DHCP or not, with bcm4400 driver. Source code for this is a part of Debian distribution and you can compile it easily against kernel headers. I tried b44 driver, but for me it wouldn't work at all. Slaven
