Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:55:49 +0900 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: unknown ethernet card Message-ID: <F631C60A-83B6-41C8-A8D1-3D51483B3CAB@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <E10B452340619FF235E614FF@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> References: <E10B452340619FF235E614FF@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local>
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On Sep 15, 2006, at 12:28 PM, pauls@utdallas.edu wrote: > I'm beginning the install of 6.1 RELEASE on a Dell 1950. It uses > Dual Embedded Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NICs, and > they are not correctly recognized during the install. The system > identifies them as bce0 and bce1, but apparently the driver isn't > working right. > > Does anyone have these NICs working? If so, what driver did you use? > > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > Adjunct Information Security Officer > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ Those particular cards should use a generic driver (in this case bc). The fact that your interfaces are found though seems to point to the fact that things are not configured properly, network-wise. Are you sure the network settings you're providing are correct, or that the actual NICs themselves have a solid link to a switch and are working? -Garrett
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