Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:16:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> To: "A. J. E. Cleland" <ajc219@cam.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8-RELEASE: Gigabit Ethernet support on Dell PowerEdge 1750 Message-ID: <20031022201543.I55599@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <E1ACNFg-0005v9-Tw@maroon.csi.cam.ac.uk> References: <E1ACNFg-0005v9-Tw@maroon.csi.cam.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, A. J. E. Cleland wrote: > > 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 > > > > Aha, that would explain it. I'll try the /usr/src copy idea, as I don't > have any PCI-X NICs that'll fit the 1750. > Any 3.3V capable NIC like the 3com 905C or Intel EEPro100 will do, I did it with an recent 100MBit 3com card that was lying around. 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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