Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:13:01 +1000 From: Christopher Smith <csmith@its.uq.edu.au> To: Mahlon <mahlon-dated-1037256999.8fdb1f@martini.nu> Cc: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>, <mahlon@centerspan.com>, <kaile@centerspan.com> Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXTreme support Message-ID: <B9E5EDCD.3EEA0%csmith@its.uq.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20021030065638.GD889@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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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