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From: "Yuan, Jue" <yuanjue02@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized
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On Wednesday 03 May 2006 22:52, you wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a new laptop, and I have an odd problem.  The
> laptop has a Broadcomm NetXtreme 57xx Gig Nic, and the install didn't
> recognize it.  The GENERIC kernel has support for the NIC (bge and
> miibus), and I've done several installs on other hardware that detected
> the NIC just fine, but this one doesn't.  There's nothing in dmesg, and
> ifconfig only shows lo0.
>
> How do I correct this problem?

Does any other OS on this laptop could recognize the NIC ? Maybe it is
a problem of hardware ;)

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