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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:13:01 +1000
Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXTreme support
From: Christopher Smith <csmith@its.uq.edu.au>
To: Mahlon <mahlon-dated-1037256999.8fdb1f@martini.nu>
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On 30/10/2002 4:56 PM, "Mahlon" <mahlon-dated-1037256999.8fdb1f@martini.nu>
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
>> 
>> I have a number of 2650s here working quite happily with the bge driver
>> in 4.7-RELEASE.  What problems are you seeing ?
> 
> 
> Actually, after poking around further, all I find are docs that say
> there has been full support for the NetXTreme since 4.4 - so it
> looks as if my question is evolving into "why isn't it working for
> me?"
> 
> The problem I'm experiencing is fbsd simply not probing the device.
> Nothing under dmesg, bge support is definitly in the kernel.  Is
> there a trick somewhere that I'm not gleaning, or some sort of bios
> level knob to turn?  (If so, I can't find it.)

No idea.  All I did was chuck in the FreeBSD-4.6.2 or 4.7 CD and it was
picked up right from first boot.

I did have to tweak the 4.6.2 boxes at the time by modifying the driver, but
that was to resolve a run-time issue, not a card detection issue.  The
problem appears to have been fixed in 4.7.


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