On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:38:26 -0700 "Chris Desjardins" <cddesjar at hotmail.com> wrote: > My second question involves my ethernet card which is a Broadcom 440x 10/100 > Integrated Controller. Apparently Slackware didn't recognize this...does > anyone know if it supports this controller? How do I get it to work if it > does support it? Will I need to download a driver? Does the fact that it > doesn't recognize my ethernet card have anything to do with my kernel not > working properly? I have an Inspirion 5150 which uses this same ethernet controller. Broadcom has released their own driver but it's pretty lousy. Within the last few kernel releases a much better driver has been incorporated, the option in the kernel configurator is Network device support --> Ethernet (10 or 100) --> Broadcom 4400 ethernet support a while back i put together a simple kernel compiling article if you aren't familiar with the process http://tom.catocom.com/compiling102.html another thing, if your 1100 is like my 5150, it doesn't have apm support, if i remember you have monkey around a bit to force acpi to work instead. there is some good info available for running linux on laptops, it can be a real headache depending on the machine. try googling "inspiron 1100 linux" and you should get some good info. Thomas Johnson -------------- john4293 at umn dot edu 763.458.9071 (cell) -------------- * if it's not broken, i haven't worked hard enough. * there is little truth in men but much cunning. -peter the great _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list