HOWTO enable Broadcom BCM57780 ethernet chip
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2011/1/9 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> *I recently got myself a shiny new toy, a 14" notebook, and installed Gentoo (naturally). *The biggest struggle was getting the Broadcom BCM57780 ethernet chip recognized. *For the benefit of anybody else who runs into problems, here is the step-by-step solution... as root... cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig *Device Drivers *---> * *[*] Network device support *---> * * *-*- * PHY Device support and infrastructure *---> * * * *<*> * Drivers for Broadcom PHYs * * *[*] * Ethernet (1000 Mbit) *---> * * * *<*> * Broadcom Tigon3 support save .config, rebuild kernel, and reboot. *Ethernet works fine. -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> -- Jian Li |
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