Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:44:30 +0300 From: dima <_pppp@mail.ru> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PE800 NIC not recognized Message-ID: <E1CfDiw-000HHx-00._pppp-mail-ru@f25.mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <F3EE2AA4-4FA9-11D9-92E2-000A9578CFCC@khera.org>
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> I just took delivery of a Dell PE800 tower server. I installed > 5.3-RELEASE amd64 on it, but it is not finding any ethernet device > (there is one built into the mobo). > > According to the Dell PE800 spec sheet > (http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/800_specs.pdf) > it is a "Single embedded Broadcom 5721 Gigabit Ethernet controller". 570x series are surely supported. I tried those ones & they work quite ok. I have no idea if 572x are similar enough though. Some troubleshooting ideas: - is bge(4) driver compiled into your kernel (make sure miibus is also present)? try kldload if_bge if not - ask the maintainer (Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com>), he could know much more about Broadcom NICs > I've never had issues with network controllers on dells before, so I > didn't pay any attention to this before I bought it. Does there exist > a driver for this thing? For now I guess I need to just slap in an old > fxp card I've got sitting about to get this up and running. Any help > would be appreciated. Or is it a supported chip and I just have a dud? > > > Vivek Khera, Ph.D. > +1-301-869-4449 x806 > >
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