Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:24:55 -0700 (PDT) From: william paul <wpaul@windriver.com> To: ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net (Olaf Hoyer) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unrecognized Broadcom 570x Chip on Dell1750 Message-ID: <200309191624.JAA18255@huisne.wrs.com> In-Reply-To: <20030919172246.H3060@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> from "Olaf Hoyer" at Sep 19, 2003 05:28:45 PM
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Olaf Hoyer
had to walk into mine and say:
> HI!
>
> Got @work a new Dell 1750 machine, serverworks Chipset w/Xeon CPU, also
> dual gigE Broadcom chipsets.
> FreeBSD 4.8-R failed to recognize the chip, but Knoppix 3.2 (Linux
> Distro, based on debian iirc, recognized the broadcom chips, iirc as
> 5704 ones)
Yeah yeah yeah. Try a FreeBSD 4.9 snapshot. Support for the 5704 was
added after FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE came out. 4.9 should also support
the 5705 chips.
-Bill
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