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Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet on freebsd 5.3
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eodyna <eodyna@yahoo.com.au> writes:

> im trying to get gigabit to work with my dell optiplex
> machine. i read from another message
> 
> ">Answering (maybe) my own question, it looks like the
> changes to miidevs 
> > and brgphy didn't make the 5.3 cut, even though the
> changes to bge did.
> > 
> > Will advise.
> > 
> 
> That was it.
> 
> Pulled in miidevs, brgphy.c, brgphyreg.h from HEAD
> 
> "
> 
> but im not sure what the person meant by pulling it in
> from HEAD.
> 
> can someone explain it to me? 

Since you're not a software expert, playing around with the source
code will be more work than it's worth.  If you upgrade to 5.4, you
will probably get the changes you need automatically.