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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Re: BCM5703 GigE ifs on Supermicro X5DL8-GG m/b not detected
 on5.1-BETA2 or 4.8
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On Fri, 23 May 2003, Doug White wrote:

> On Thu, 22 May 2003, John Dhmioyrgos wrote:
> 
> > This is a Supermicro X5DL8-GG motherboard (ServerWorks GC-LE chipset) in a
> > Supermicro 7403L-8R box, with what they claim are onboard Broadcom 5703
> > GigE ifs. OS set to Other in BIOS (latest ver), ACPI/Hyperthreading on.
> 
> Broadcom NICs in an Intel chipset system? What crack is Supermicro
> smoking? (note the pcib & etc. chips are vendor 0x8086 which is Intel.)

  I don't know about Supermicro, but ASUS uses Broadcom chips with an
Intel chipset on at least one workstation board:

http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?langs=09&m=P4G8X%20Deluxe


> Also, 'pciconf -lv' output is more useful, it'll print the text strings
> and make identifying the proper ID much easier.
> 
> -- 
> Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org
> _______________________________________________


Tom