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Date:      Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:42:50 -0700
From:      "David Christensen" <davidch@broadcom.com>
To:        "Craig Rodrigues" <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "davidch@freebsd.org" <davidch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Broadcom NIC not recognized by FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B523819339EBA5F118@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090611164711.GA99074@crodrigues.org>
References:  <20090610174211.GA78796@crodrigues.org> <20090611164711.GA99074@crodrigues.org>

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> > I am trying to install FreeBSD-CURRENT (svn rev 189289) on my Acer=20
> > Aspire 5920 laptop.  The Broadcom NIC does not show up in=20
> the list of=20
> > interfaces with "ifconfig -l".
> >=20
> > However, if I do "pciconf -l -v", I see:
> >=20
> > bge0@pci0:8:0:0:  class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x01211025=20
> chip=3D0x169314e4 rev=3D0x02 hdr=3D0x00
> >   vendor =3D 'Broadcom Corporation'
> >   device =3D 'BCM 5787A Ethernet Controller Broadcom Netlink Gigabit'
> >   class  =3D network
> >   subclass =3D ethernet
>=20

The bge driver recognizes the controller but fails to get the=20
adapter's BAR memory mapped by the OS.  Since it's only requesting
64KB it sounds like an OS issue.  If you remove any other PCI
devices in the system does the bge driver load?

Dave=




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