NIC Cards

[OOzy Pal]

On 4/30/06, OOzy Pal <oozypal at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/30/06, Brendon <brendontoogood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:11:49 +0300, you wrote:
> >
> > > My card is built-in my motherboard is a Gigabyte 915G (81915G Duo).
> > > The built-in NIC is NetLink BCM5789 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express.
> > >
> > > I have few questions?
> > >
> > > 1. Anybody know if this NIC compatible with Ubuntu?
> > > 2. This card is 10/100/1000 and I have 256K DSL? Does it make a
> > > difference if I switch to one of the 10/100 NIC?
> > > 3. If item 1 above is OK, how can I install this NIC?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > --
> > > OOzy
> > i just had a look on the net and found this on the net i am not sure about
> > ubuntu but this card seems to work on linux well a different distro
> > this is what it said about your nic card
> > Broadcom NetLink BCM5789 Gigabit Ethernet - Use Tigon3 tg3 module.
> >
> > http://hell.jedicoder.net/?p=30
> > it won't make difference if you switch to a 10/100 i am running it on that
> > and a friend of mine is running a gigabit ethernet card and he can't tell
> > the differance between the speed wise so if a 10/100 works i'd say use
> > that.
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > .....
> >    brendon
> >
> > --
> > ubuntu-users mailing list
> > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> >
>
> I found the driver but it is for the RPM distros.
>
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php
>
> How can I install it in .deb?
> --
> OOzy
>

I tried to follow the installation instruction but I got the following msg

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$ sudo rpm -bb SPECS/tg3.spec
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.27456
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/rpm/BUILD
+ cd /usr/src/rpm/BUILD
+ rm -rf tg3-3.43f
+ /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES/tg3-3.43f.tar.bz2
+ tar -xvvf -
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2006-01-09 15:35:22 tg3-3.43f/
-rw-r--r-- root/root    326949 2006-01-09 15:35:22 tg3-3.43f/tg3.c
-rw-r--r-- root/root     90955 2006-01-09 15:35:22 tg3-3.43f/tg3.h
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3099 2006-01-09 15:35:22 tg3-3.43f/tg3.mod.c
-rw-r--r-- root/root     15153 2006-01-09 15:35:22 tg3-3.43f/LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- root/root     56601 2006-01-09 15:35:22 tg3-3.43f/ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2359 2006-01-09 15:35:22 tg3-3.43f/Makefile
+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd tg3-3.43f
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.27456
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/rpm/BUILD
+ cd tg3-3.43f
+ make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/build
SUBDIRS=/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/tg3-3.43f modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.27456 (%build)


RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.27456 (%build)
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OOzy