Hi, It looks like TG3, the broadcom driver, is already installed on Centos 5.2. Does anyone know why the network is still not working? I am very stuck in trying to get the Dell Optiplex to work. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Pete On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:36 AM, NiftyClusters Mitch <niftycluster at niftyegg.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:29 AM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: >> Pete Kay wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am havind deep trouble with a bunch of our newly arrived Optiplex >>> 330 as it can't run Centos 5.2 property. >>> > ...... >>> >>> Does anyone know how I can fix this problem? >> >> It's quite possible the network driver isn't compatible with >> the system. Looking at the support site for Dell that system >> isn't supported with Linux, and it looks like it has a pretty >> new broadcom chip on it. >> >> I'd bet that updating the driver will allow the NIC to work, >> the latest drivers for that system are available..... > > The quick and handy way to do this is to pick up an inexpensive USB > ethernet link or other ether net card. After a yum update to a new > kernel you may well have a driver that works. > > If a yum update does not update the driver, you have enough > connectivity to download then install vendor bits and tools. > > This is the trick I have used for a number of early access Intel > 'engineering' boxes. > It lets me kickstart to a lab configuration and connect long enough to > add the updated driver. I can save all the fun new bits and script up > the driver update into a single dir to copy from one to the next. > Then burn that dir of bits to a CDROM... > > If you are shopping, the older the USB ethernet device the more likely > it is to work. > > -- > NiftyCluster > T o m M i t c h e l l > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >