I usually avoid upgrading my slackware distribution on my laptop
because I always run into problems getting everything to work again.
Last weekend I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to Slackware 12,
which uses the 2.6.21.5 kernel. The upgrade went smoother than any
in the past, but sure enough, I hit two major snags. The first,
which was expected, is that my wireless network isn't working. Since
that is based on the Broadcom 4306 chip, I wasn't surprised, and
have ndiswrapper, as well as some other tools, to try to get that
going. The second snag is that my regular ethernet is also not
working. This is based on the Broadcom 5705 chip, and has always
worked out of the box, as reported by Mike Hardy.

From what I can tell, the driver for the 5705 chip switched from
bcm5700 to tg3. lspci shows both networking chips in the list, so
the machine appears to see them. lsmod reports both the tg3 and
bcm43xx drivers as loaded, but ifconfig only shows the localhost.
Also, the wireless keeps trying to bind to eth0, which I never had
happen before.

I would appreciate any help on this!

Thanks,
Dan