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6.06 Server Edition does not recognize NIC on Dell SC440.

Asked by Sadanori Horiguchi

I installed 6.06 Server Edition on Dell SC440, and the NIC is not recognized by the OS. I searched on the internet, and found this answer, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1920008#post1920008, which I followed.

It worked well for a while, but then when I upgraded the system, "sudo apt-get update" then "sudo apt-get upgrade", system stopped recognize the NIC completely. The /etc/iftab is empty, and "/etc/init.d/networking restart" would give me the error saying "eth0: No such device".

The following is the output from upgrade:

The following packages have been kept back:
linux-image-server
The following packages will be upgraded:
bind9-host cpio dnsutils dpkg dselect file gnupg gzip info iptables klogd
libbind9-0 libc6 libc6-i686 libdns21 libgnutls12 libisc11 libisccc0
libisccfg1 libkrb53 liblwres9 libmagic1 libssl0.9.8
linux-image-2.6.15-26-server linux-server locales lvm2 openssh-client
python2.4 python2.4-minimal sysklogd tar tcpdump w3m
34 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Any idea what is going on, and how to fix this?
Thank you for all your support in advance.

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Best Jonathan McLoughlin (jonathan-mcloughlin) said : 		#1

Your broadcom network driver was compiled for the previous linux kernel on your system, when you did the upgrade you upgraded your kernel and thus your broadcom driver is not compatible with your new kernel, you should follow the steps outline on the ubuntuforums again, at stage 8 before you 'inmod tg3.ko' pass this command 'rmmod tg3.ko' and all should be OK

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Sadanori Horiguchi (charbo) said : 		#2

Thanks Jonathan McLoughlin, that solved my question.