It always. 2011/1/9 Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
> I recently got myself a shiny new toy, a 14" notebook, and installed > Gentoo (naturally). The biggest struggle was getting the Broadcom > BCM57780 ethernet chip recognized. For the benefit of anybody else who > runs into problems, here is the step-by-step solution... > > as root... > cd /usr/src/linux > make menuconfig > Device Drivers ---> > [*] Network device support ---> > -*- PHY Device support and infrastructure ---> > <*> Drivers for Broadcom PHYs > [*] Ethernet (1000 Mbit) ---> > <*> Broadcom Tigon3 support > > save .config, rebuild kernel, and reboot. Ethernet works fine. > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> > > -- Jian Li
