From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 03:28:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 783AF16A4CE for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 03:28:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from o2.hostbaby.com (o2.hostbaby.com [208.187.29.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11A4543D4C for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 03:28:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceo@l-i-e.com) Received: (qmail 97736 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Sep 2004 03:28:14 -0000 Received: from 67.167.52.21 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com); by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 20:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1325.67.167.52.21.1094527694.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1093.67.167.52.21.1094522790.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 20:28:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Richard Lynch" To: "Subhro" User-Agent: Hostbaby Webmail X-Mailer: Hostbaby Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom 440x NIC not recognized on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ceo@l-i-e.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 03:28:08 -0000 Subhro wrote: > Could I have a look at your whole dmesg? http://phpbootcamp.com/articles/inspiron700m/ > Also tell us something about your other hardware. Did you try popping > out the NIC and fixing it in another slot? It's a Dell laptop... I'm not unwilling to open her up and poke at it, but I'm guessing that there isn't an extra PCI slot in there to move the NIC to... Plus, like, the NIC is being "seen" it just ain't hooking up with the BFE driver -- Or that's how I interpret the dmesg output... Here's Dell's "Tech Specs": http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_700m?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~tab=specstab#tabtop -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm