Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:45:44 -0700 From: Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez <mapsware@prodigy.net.mx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIC BCM5751 not supported Message-ID: <200603112145.44459.mapsware@prodigy.net.mx>
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Hi: I am installing FreeBSD in a IBM ThinkCentre 8136-KSQ, it has a network car= d=20 Boradcom in the mother board. I see a chip with this numbers: Broadcom BCM5751FKFB HS0521 P21 744910 N Whit "dmesg | grep -i ethe" I got: pci2: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no driver attached) With "pciconf -lv" I got: none3@pci2:0:0: class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x02f71014 chip=3D0x167e14e4 rev=3D= 0x11=20 hdr=3D0x00 =A0 =A0 vendor =A0 =3D 'Broadcom Corporation' =A0 =A0 device =A0 =3D 'BCM5751F NetXtreme Fast Ethernet PCI Express' =A0 =A0 class =A0 =A0=3D network =A0 =A0 subclass =3D ethernet The manual for bge(4), says: bge -- Broadcom BCM570x/5714/5721/5750/5751/5789 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapt= er=20 driver The GENERIC kernal has the device bge, I confirm it loading the module: # kldload if_bge module_register: module pci/miibus already exists! Module pci/miibus failed to register: 17 module_register: module pci/bge already exists! Module pci/bge failed to register: 17 kldload: can't load if_bge: File exists is this nic supported? TIA
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