From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 07:40:15 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 A11BA37B409 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:40:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D4043FA3 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:40:12 -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 B8A34ACB1 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:40:11 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E81D1D2.8000009@landgren.net> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:14:10 +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 References: <3E81C40D.7020701@landgren.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-17.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,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: Re: 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 15:40:18 -0000 Nicolas Kowalski wrote: >David Landgren writes: > > >>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). >> >> >I faced the same problem with a ML370 G3. My ugly workaround was to >plug in this machine another - well recognized - network card. I used >an Intel EtherExpressPro10/100 (fxp) for this. > I thought about that. We opened the box up and tried to install a 3com 905B (or whatever the standard 3com "works everywhere" card is) instead. The trouble is the PCI slots are weird, longer and sort of back to front. It says PCI 133, so I assume they changed the physical format when the bus speed was upgraded. In any event, the cards I have don't fit. >On 4.8-RC the bge driver works well. > > Ok, I'll see about downloading an ISO and see how that goes. >Regards. > > Yeah, thanks for a swift reply, even if it was bad news... David