BCM4401 Ethernet card stopped working
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Bug Description
Hi
I've been using my Dell Dimension 5000 with Ubuntu for a while now, but when this Monday I turned the PC on, I couldn't get network connection. If I starting with the boot cd, network works ok. Network was working last Thursday.
After some digging I have found out that lspci can see my network card, but lshw says this: "network UNCLAIMED" (booting with boot cd does not say UNCLAIMED). I'm guessing it's a driver problem, probably after some update I may have done last week. Since my PC only has one network card, I cannot try and update my Ubuntu to see if has been fixed.
I have looked on many forums and bug reports, but all I can see is networking problems after a while, or wireless problems solved with ndiswrapper. I really do not want to use ndiswrapper, specially because I probably do not need it.
I'm attaching all the data I have gathered. Please tell me if you need anything else, for example, these same commands on my running boot cd (which I am using now).
Thank you for your time.
lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 7.10
Release: 7.10
uname -a:
Linux peel 2.6.24-20-generic #1 SMP Thu Jul 17 16:29:46 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV610 video device [Radeon HD 2400 PRO]
04:03.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
BTW, I found someone with the same problem:
http:// sudan.ubuntufor ums.com/ showthread. php?t=765461