From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 06:41:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C1237B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:41:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1839D43FA3 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:41:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from landgren.net (81-80-147-206.bpinet.com [81.80.147.206]) by sferics.mongueurs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DCBACB1 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:41:27 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E81C40D.7020701@landgren.net> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:15:25 +0100 From: David Landgren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: bge network driver not loaded on a HP (Compaq) Proliant DL380 G3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:41:29 -0000 Hello, I am in the process of installing FreeBSD 4.7 on an HP Proliant DL380 G3. At the moment I am blocked by the fact that the kernel does not recognise the network card (or rather, does not load the bge driver). It is a Broadcom BCM5703X Gigabit Ethernet adapter. (In fact there are two). When I run 'pciconf -lv' it displays the following output (not cut&paste) none4@pci2:1:0:class=[omitted] vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM5703X Gigabit Ethernet' class = network subclass = ethernet and same again more or less for the second adapter at none5. And when I run ifconfig -a, they are not present. The GENERIC kernel doesn't load the driver, and the bge driver is included. I rebuilt a kernel stripping out all the other network adapters and still it does not correctly sense the card. How can I force FreeBSD to recognize the adapters? A second problem, less urgent, is that the machine has 5Gb of RAM, and at boot time the kernel says memory above 4Gb ignored While configuring the new kernel file I reviewed everything in LINT but I didn't see anything obvious. Is it possible to get 4.7 to recognize >4Gb or is this something that can only be done on a more recent version, e.g., 4.8 or 5.0? Thanks for any clues I can use, David