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Date:      Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:52:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
To:        Andrew Cleland <ajc219@cam.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.8-RELEASE: Gigabit Ethernet support on Dell PowerEdge 1750
Message-ID:  <20031022195014.P55599@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
In-Reply-To: <002801c398b6$24e7b2a0$01181aac@ajc219>
References:  <002801c398b6$24e7b2a0$01181aac@ajc219>

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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Andrew Cleland wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying and failing to get 4.8-RELEASE to recognise the two Broadcom
> 5704C based NICs on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server.

Hi!

Known issue, the 5704C PCI ID wasn't known to the bge-driver around
4.8-R.

take a FreeBSD 4.9-PRE, there it will work.

Or install a 4.8-R, and update it somehow (put in a third NIC, cvsup,
and make world, or copy over the /usr/src from another machine via CD)

HTH
Olaf


-- 
Olaf Hoyer        ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net
Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten,
ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist.
(Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)



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