BroadCom tg3 Linux Driver for NetXtreme BCM5754 Ethernet card

[Pietro Roversi]

Dear everyone,
                  we just unpacked our brand new PC and were hoping to
be up and running with Ubuntu 6.06 but the Ethernet card is not found
(i.e. /etc/iftab is empty and ifconfig does not return a MAC address for
it).

	We have downloaded the driver file tg3-3.58b-1.src.rpm, converted it to
b44_1.00g-2_i386.deb using alien and now we are trying to compile it -
but as the Ethernet card is not seen I have to feed every file we need
through an external piece of media and it is rather painful.

	Question: is an Ubuntu installation disk going to be available soon
that would allow us to just stick it in, install and be up and running?

	In general - does anyone have a piece of advice on the optimal way of
proceeding when installing Ubuntu Linux from scratch on a computer with
an Ethernet card whose driver is not in the installation disk?

	Thanks!

	Pietro
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Pietro Roversi
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Oxford University
South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3ER 
England UK