[ILUG] problem with network interface

Wed Jun 11 16:22:27 IST 2008

Daniel McInerney wrote:
> Yeah, it's an onboard Broadcom 4400 network card
> and the RAM is running in dual channel mode. But
> it has been running with 2gigs of RAM without any
> problem for the past couple of years. Tho' I'll check
> the version of the driver that's installed.

That's more than a coincidence I think.
My crusty memory is hinting that there were 2 drivers
available for that device, a bcm4400 from broadcom,
and an in kernel b44 one. The later fixed the issue on
the laptop. Now it wasn't my laptop so I'm really
scraping the memory barrel here.

Pádraig.

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Daniel McInerney wrote:
> Yeah, it's an onboard Broadcom 4400 network card
> and the RAM is running in dual channel mode. But
> it has been running with 2gigs of RAM without any
> problem for the past couple of years. Tho' I'll check
> the version of the driver that's installed.

That's more than a coincidence I think.
My crusty memory is hinting that there were 2 drivers
available for that device, a bcm4400 from broadcom,
and an in kernel b44 one. The later fixed the issue on
the laptop. Now it wasn't my laptop so I'm really
scraping the memory barrel here.

Pádraig.

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Daniel McInerney wrote:
> Yeah, it's an onboard Broadcom 4400 network card
> and the RAM is running in dual channel mode. But
> it has been running with 2gigs of RAM without any
> problem for the past couple of years. Tho' I'll check
> the version of the driver that's installed.

That's more than a coincidence I think.
My crusty memory is hinting that there were 2 drivers
available for that device, a bcm4400 from broadcom,
and an in kernel b44 one. The later fixed the issue on
the laptop. Now it wasn't my laptop so I'm really
scraping the memory barrel here.

Pádraig.

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Daniel McInerney wrote:
> Yeah, it's an onboard Broadcom 4400 network card
> and the RAM is running in dual channel mode. But
> it has been running with 2gigs of RAM without any
> problem for the past couple of years. Tho' I'll check
> the version of the driver that's installed.

That's more than a coincidence I think.
My crusty memory is hinting that there were 2 drivers
available for that device, a bcm4400 from broadcom,
and an in kernel b44 one. The later fixed the issue on
the laptop. Now it wasn't my laptop so I'm really
scraping the memory barrel here.

Pádraig.