Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:50:13 -0700 From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Latitude D800 Onboard Ethernet woes Message-ID: <20030922055013.GB1073@ack.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20030918171122.GA6658@ack.Berkeley.EDU> References: <20030918171122.GA6658@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Sep 18, "To freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" wrote: FYI (and for the mailing list archives) I found it necessary to upgrade to 5.1-CURRENT. Support for the card was introduced, but the latest versions of the files involved used a different api for an important bus call, so it was easier just to upgrade all my sources. As of yesterday's kernel, everything works great. Sorry, by the English. Mike > Greetings freebsd-mobile, > > I have a dell latitude D800 that I have FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE installed on > (cvsup'd and compiled Sep 12 12:30 PDT). I found it necessary to rebuild > because I had forgotten to enable "device pcm" for sound in my kernel > config. > > Unfortunately, my onboard ethernet device (bge0) went away after the > upgrade. I tried disabling sound and recompiling, but it still didn't > work. Interestingly, when I installed from the 5.1-release ISO, the NIC > didn't work either...cvsuping some time before September 11 (sorry I don't > have more precise dates) got me sources that got the interface working. > Windows xp identifies it as a "broadcom 570x Gigabit Integrated > Controller" on pci bus 2, device 0, function 0, irq 11. > > I did a cp -R from /boot to /boot.good before I enabled the sound device, > so I have a kernel on the system that will work with the nic, if that's > any help for debugging. Booting the old kernel with -v, I can see it > attaching the driver to the device.... > > Please let me know if any other information would be helpful. Feel free > to ignore the ACPI problems, that's another email :) > > Thanks, > > Mike Hunter [snip]
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