From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 27 10:12:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62C716A417 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leosat.it@ariel.ru) Received: from mail1.ariel.ru (mail1.ariel.ru [85.21.118.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DEE13C461 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leosat.it@ariel.ru) Received: by mail1.ariel.ru (Postfix, from userid 1008) id 742739B82D; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:13:38 +0300 (MSK) Received: from [10.254.254.3] (ppp91-76-97-13.pppoe.mtu-net.ru [91.76.97.13]) by mail1.ariel.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73FDD9B80A; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:13:36 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <479C58C9.2090902@ariel.ru> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:11:21 +0300 From: Leonid Satanovsky User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070607) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The question about Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter integrated in motherboard, on PCIe and FreeBSD6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:12:46 -0000 (1) Thank you for answering! (2) Do I correctly understand that from the OS's "point of view" there's no difference between Broadcom adapter being attached to PCI bus or to PCIe? Or am I wrong? Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Yes. All of the Broadcom chips are the same and are supported > by the bge driver. However, Broadcom and it's various motherboard > customers seem to like to use different PCI id strings for the > chip, and so you may find when you install it, that it does not > detect the chip. A typical example of the problem is here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/119779 > > and the fix, shown in this PR, is easy to implement. Basically, > boot FreeBSD, if the chip isn't detected, run pciconf and take > the output and patch the driver detection and you should be > fine. > > Ted > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Leonid >> Satanovsky >> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 4:13 AM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: The question about Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter integrated >> in motherboard, on PCIe and FreeBSD6.3 >> >> >> Hi all! >> -------------------- >> The question is: >> -------------------- >> will FreeBSD 6.3 support Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter integrated in >> motherboard (it's on PCIe bus) ? >> The motherboard is ASUSTeK P5M2-M (RTL) >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Best regards, >> Leonid E. Satanovsky, >> system administrator / __end__, >> Ariel metal. >> tel.: +7 495 786-42-90,981-41-45, add.: 341 >> tel.: +7 495 786-43-03 >> e-mail: leosat.it@ariel.ru >> http://www.arielmetal.ru >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Best regards, Leonid E. Satanovsky, system administrator / __end__, Ariel metal. tel.: +7 495 786-42-90,981-41-45, add.: 341 tel.: +7 495 786-43-03 e-mail: leosat.it@ariel.ru http://www.arielmetal.ru