Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:57:17 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Leonid Satanovsky" <leosat.it@ariel.ru>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: The question about Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter integrated in motherboard, on PCIe and FreeBSD6.3 Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCMEFDCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <479B23C0.5040406@ariel.ru>
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Yes. All of the Broadcom chips are the same and are supported by the bge driver. However, Broadcom and it's various motherboard customers seem to like to use different PCI id strings for the chip, and so you may find when you install it, that it does not detect the chip. A typical example of the problem is here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/119779 and the fix, shown in this PR, is easy to implement. Basically, boot FreeBSD, if the chip isn't detected, run pciconf and take the output and patch the driver detection and you should be fine. Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Leonid > Satanovsky > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 4:13 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: The question about Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter integrated > in motherboard, on PCIe and FreeBSD6.3 > > > Hi all! > -------------------- > The question is: > -------------------- > will FreeBSD 6.3 support Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter integrated in > motherboard (it's on PCIe bus) ? > The motherboard is ASUSTeK P5M2-M (RTL) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Best regards, > Leonid E. Satanovsky, > system administrator / __end__, > Ariel metal. > tel.: +7 495 786-42-90,981-41-45, add.: 341 > tel.: +7 495 786-43-03 > e-mail: leosat.it@ariel.ru > http://www.arielmetal.ru > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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