From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 12 09:17:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2101916A711 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:17:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mapsware@prodigy.net.mx) Received: from smtp.prodigy.net.mx (nlpproxy10.prodigy.net.mx [148.235.52.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAE81441F5 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:45:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mapsware@prodigy.net.mx) Received: from smtp.prodigy.net.mx (nlpproxy10 [148.235.52.30]) by smtp.prodigy.net.mx (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.05 (built Mar 3 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IVZ0085JZVHVO@smtp.prodigy.net.mx>; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:45:17 -0600 (CST) Received: from morena.maps.mx(dsl-201-129-149-248.prod-infinitum.com.mx [201.129.149.248]) by smtp.prodigy.net.mx(iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.05 (built Mar 3 2005))with ESMTP id <0IVZ00F0UZVH3W@smtp.prodigy.net.mx>; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:45:17 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:45:44 -0700 From: Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200603112145.44459.mapsware@prodigy.net.mx> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 X-imss-version: 2.038 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-scores: Clean:38.66502 C:2 M:3 S:5 R:5 X-imss-settings: Baseline:3 C:4 M:4 S:4 R:4 (0.5000 0.5000) Subject: NIC BCM5751 not supported X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:17:25 -0000 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: 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