Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:41:41 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: rjk@wintek.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bge on the new Mac Mini Message-ID: <50A65EB5.7040004@mu.org> In-Reply-To: <50A65BFC.7030406@wintek.com> References: <50A65BFC.7030406@wintek.com>
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Often that is all that is needed. It's worth a shot and reporting back. Do you know how to update the table in the driver, rebuild/install kernel and check? -Alfred On 11/16/12 7:30 AM, Richard Kuhns wrote: > Hi all, > > Over the last month or so I've installed FreeBSD 9 (-stable) on several Mac > Minis via the memstick image; they seem to be pretty good little boxes for > things like offsite secondary nameservers, for example, and they're easily > replaced in case of problems. > > However, the newest minis have slightly different hardware, and FreeBSD can't > find the built-in NIC. pciconf -lv on the new mini shows it as > > none3@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x168614e4 chip=0x168614e4 rev=0x01 > hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > The previous edition mini (that works) reports > > bge0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x16b414e4 chip=0x16b414e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > device = 'NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > Is there a chance that adding the new card/chip info to the current driver would > allow it to work? I'll be happy to test and report back. I'm afraid I'm not > familiar enough with hardware at that level to figure out the patch myself. > > Thanks!
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