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Date:      Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:00:39 +0200
From:      Guillaume Goutaudier <guillaume.goutaudier@hp.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   BCM4401-B0 card error on FreeBSD 5.2.1
Message-ID:  <41051C97.7030200@hp.com>

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bge gives me exactly the same error message.
And still nothing like "bge0: ..." in dmesg output.


Try bge. 

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:11:42PM +0200, Guillaume Goutaudier wrote:
>/ Hi all,
/>/ 
/>/ I'm trying to move from Linux to FreeBSD on my compaq nx5000 laptop.
/>/ The FreeBSD version I installed is 5.2.1.
/>/ 
/>/ I have a problem with the integrated broadcom BCM4401-B0 NIC.
/>/ 
/>/ This is not a BCM4401 but a BCM4401-B0 card (PCI ID = 0x170c), and
/>/ the bfe driver does not seem to work:
/>/ 
/>/ In the dmesg output, I don't have a single line with "bfe0: ...".
/>/ Instead, all I have is:
/>/ 
/>/ pci1: <network, ethernet> at device 14.0 (no driver attached)
/>/ 
/>/ When I try to install the bfe module manually, I get:
/>/ 
/>/ # kldload miibus.ko
/>/ interface miibus.1 already present in the KLD 'kernel'!
/>/ kldload: can't load miibus.ko: file exists
/>/ # kldload if_bfe.ko
/>/ module_register: module pci/bfe already exists!
/>/ Module pci/bfe failed to register: 17
/>/ module_register: module bfe/miibus already exists!
/>/ Module bfe/miibus failed to register: 17
/>/ 
/>/ I'm not familiar at all with *BSD drivers stuff so any help will be
/>/ REALLY appreciated ...
/>/ 
/>/ cheers,
/>/ 
/>/ 
/>/ Guillaume
/>/ /





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