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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2006 22:18:14 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Paul Schmehl" <pauls@utdallas.edu>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized
Message-ID:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEODFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <4458C3C0.1050904@utdallas.edu>

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Paul,

  Please post the output of "pciconf -lv"

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl
>Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 7:53 AM
>To: FreeBSD Questions
>Subject: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized
>
>
>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?
>
>--
>Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
>Adjunct Information Security Officer
>The University of Texas at Dallas
>http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
>
>--
>No virus found in this incoming message.
>Checked by AVG Free Edition.
>Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006
>




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