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Is there a way to get the b44 drivers to work for my ethernet. Have Broadcom B4401 ethernet card. Got the wireless working but I also need wired. If its a driver/Ubuntu/Broadcom-driver-source/WHATEVER problem, I would like to know. It is too much conflicting info out their to read. Some say it will never work, some say they got it to work but it's above my head with the compiling, diffs and patches and everything.
Is it a .deb I can install to get the Hardware to working.
This is what dmesg | tail says about b44, with and without b43 module loaded:
[ 5325.848072] b44 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 5325.908581] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:00.0
[ 5325.909025] b44.c:v2.0
[ 5325.928908] eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:1c:23:91:bd:0d
[ 5326.070282] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready.

I need a solution cause I don't want to install another distro plus the programs and configure system to my specs. I'm loosing $$$$$$$$$$$$$ cause of this problem.
Bottom line, IT SHOULD WORK, simple as that.

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Theodotos Andreou (theodotos) said : 		#1

Can you give us some detail of you system. Is it desktop or server? 10.10 or 10.04? Can you also run the "sudo lshw" command and paste the details of your hardware in the pastebin? (http://paste.ubuntu.com)

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Me (dinkus223) said : 		#2

Here is the output of sudo lshw, http://paste.ubuntu.com/562097. I'm using 10.04. Output of
uname -srvm:
Linux 2.6.32-24-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 28 06:07:29 UTC 2010 i686

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Me (dinkus223) said : 		#3

Found a Dell Ubuntu iso, ubuntu-9.04-dell_A01.iso. The b44 drivers didn't work. It tried to download the b43 drivers with b43-firmware-cutter but since there is no working network drivers, it was pointless. It must be a major problem if the Dell, or Broadcom for that matter can't get their drivers right with their own Ubuntu distro. I even downloaded ubuntu-8.04.1-dvd-i386.iso since word on the net is the b44 and b43 drivers work, they don't.
I'm considering problem solved.
Solution: Sell laptop to a MS lover and get me one from a manufacturer that doesn't have any Broadcom hardware installed.

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Theodotos Andreou (theodotos) said : 		#4

That's true. Even though the hardware problem are nowhere near the issues we had 10 years ago you still need to do some research before you by hardware for Linux.