[wellylug] Debian on HP Compaq q530

[David Antliff]

With regards to your onboard network interface, is it a Broadcom 4400
chipset? If so, there are experimental drivers in Linux 2.6 (which work
well, but without magic packet support for WOL) otherwise there are
'official' Broadcom Linux drivers (opensource) here - I'm not sure where
the official website for them is however.

http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~amanous/Inspiron-Linux/files/bcm4400-2.0.5.tar.gz

There's also this:

http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/bcm4400-source

And I think there are is also b44.c or something in Linux 2.4 but I've
never used that one. It was the basis for the 2.6 driver I think.

Cheers,
David.


Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> I am trying to get Debian 3.0r2 to work on a HP Compaq d530 PC and having
> some issues.
> The machine has on on-board Broadcom LAN card which Debian does not appear
> to have drivers for, but I have got around this by installing another LAN
> card that Debian does support.