Hello Forum, I have a DELL Inspiron Laptop and the on board PCI Ehternet in Hardware device shows in yellow exclamation mark it also says unknown device. I went to system information and it shows a Broadcom 440 x100/10 ETC. On the listing it showed it was installed= YES but it did not show a driver. I went to my friend who had an ACER laptop and it was using the same PCI Ethernet ( Broadcom 440) so I copied his drivers and put them in when ask by my Add Hardware for install of driver. It then showed up on Device list BUT it says unable to START- Code 10, I had put the driver in same place as on my friends laptop WIN32/driver and a Win LAN folder. I am now totally lost as what to do next.

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I have the CD from DELL BUT it does not have the drivers on it! Thanks for any help Pilot. Broadcom is junk. I run into this all the time.

The hardware will not work with just the basic driver, like other 'general' hardware will. No, Broadcom is SPECIAL. It has to have it's clunky software installed before it will give you the correct driver. Uninstall the software, it takes it's drivers with it as it goes, leaving the hardware non-functional. And aiming Device Manager at the device will not work.

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I don't know how Broadcom does it, or why. I can only assume it is because they want their software on your computer.

So my guess is that either the software was uninstalled, or it got corrupt in some way. So, first thing is to get a copy of the Network software from Dell's support site. Then uninstall the software from 'Add/Remove Programs' and reboot. Then install the Network software and that should fix the problem, unless the hardware is bad.

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So I am trying to figure out why the driver seems to go out to lunch for this install. Kentucky derby programs for sale. So these work fine from a live CD and are totally usable, but once installed fail to load properly, correct? Do you see the GRUB menu (the boot menu straight after POST where you choose which OS to load).

If no GRUB menu is displayed, try holding down shift just after your system is powered up as per. From the GRUB menu you should be able to enter recovery mode.

One of the options in the recovery menu is 'Run in failsafe graphic mode' which will be worth a try. Recovery mode is also verbose (outputs text describing each step of the loading process) so if it is hanging on a particular step, it will be helpful to note what that is. I can say that in one old system I had, I would always have boot problems with Linux unless ACPI was disabled. Is there an option to do this in the system BIOS?

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I also recall I had to do something during install to disable ACPI but it's been a long time and I can't remember exactly how I did it, or whether it would apply to current distributions, sorry EDIT - did a bit of googling and found this - which looks like what I had to do before. Finally, I would also suggest registering with the Linux Mint forums and Ubuntu forums (Ubuntu forums are busier, and Mint is based on Ubuntu so they may also be able to help) and seeing if anyone there has suggestions - there are some really knowledgeable people out there. Edited by jonuk76, 21 December 2013 - 07:27 AM.