From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 7 06:53:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1B8106566B for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:53:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com) Received: from web52912.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web52912.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.49.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3286F8FC0A for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 30319 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Oct 2009 06:27:10 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1254896830; bh=lUU+rKlRqrIgKaeC3I015pFlWqBIWyzg/fcivGyqg/U=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=cA49W9N/iQovPmpnMPk1XGo7rfmh0E0HXi/joY6qW5emrJ8F9u7y+b9nDmF+baqfbHOJOetFeSeMlVDE+rT/61AuhS3eEQrpzNISJn0dKQmdr0//H6omcR5wcXtshg1IfmAW8LCoWZGcrQOKT1GkRW1dZfbk+cFvKVBbmaijb0Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=tiuGhmcIYXANo+Fs156BUk/CWaI9gN0K67/Hzf4THw/u7IaU0cnMtdIglrdbjKSoO9wMnO4rjB1moRGbXPSx1aFe0Y384juzY2Q2N1QZd4W/FWJaFVq9WpCovaH8YhH1RmBOUbfe5IUfmx9w8hTvSpiY/RxfPKIlAsFQf4IVFMQ=; Message-ID: <106754.29417.qm@web52912.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: nsMzPD0VM1kEQD_k0cja.BT.8k2hGwmTyCtwrEuMTG46Q2JXTs8Ysx4R2grkldoN2PHVPSV6figUzB.wcZXNA_A2ZfNZMj9jAsY5m1kLNBfPIU6HGhmBJxctL2b3QcPIdBAKjyD3vwmp.zto56NOO8Pnljz4EodTRYaJ6ggWD02pOz.DC0t1tp1GmMfiVkneEhTcq.ZhDH4ATs72mGD53.pYIcwOwyWqEOSAJH81he49A1O.bvUL65dWPUc5pmAkl4dqpM_9tTqmIjFwiEOxkbcKLTUz8c5mHIPmKSnb4B.xsVC5uL45pfJr6M7TSDF.CWmeyeXhLg2y4B6rpurRS0rbSNgMWVhUZ_S5AKb_J.SIpJ0OKMrCOAu103s- Received: from [206.190.77.154] by web52912.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:27:09 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/7.0.14 YahooMailWebService/0.7.347.3 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:27:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Stankevitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Howto: ethernet card on dell M6300 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:53:51 -0000 I was saddened to find that my ethernet card did not work on my FreeBSD 7.2 machine. The bge driver in the kernel did not support the broadcom 5756ME. Here is how I got it to work: 1. Set my machine up to compile the kernel (see section 8.5 of manual) 2. Edit /usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h. Add a definition for BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5756ME with the value 0x1674 after BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5755M: #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5755M 0x1673 #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5756ME 0x1674 #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5780 0x166A 3. Edit /usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c. Add a reference to BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5756ME after BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5755M: { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5755M }, { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5756ME }, { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5780 }, 4. Compile and install the kernel, and reboot 5. Configure the card using sysinstall Chris