Broadcom Corp - Netextreme BCM705 Gigabit Ethernet - fails install-configure

Bill Stoye skiffworks at earthlink.net
Sun Sep 26 00:58:36 UTC 2004



-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com>
Sent: Sep 25, 2004 5:34 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Broadcom Corp - Netextreme BCM705 Gigabit Ethernet - fails	install-configure

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:12:38AM -0400, Bill Stoye wrote:

> 
> Installation of Ubuntu Linux has been a piece of cake, excluding one
> issue; during install, a dialog box states: Eth0 Does not seem to be
> connected to any sort of network... use Etherconf utility... or
> statically...

There seems to be a problem with some Broadcom cards during installation:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410

Does it work OK if you configure the interface statically?

No. The broadcom ethernet is part of the motherboard.

Bill
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 - mdz

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