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Date:      Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:46:22 -0800
From:      Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Latitude D800
Message-ID:  <20031125174622.GA5241@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20031125092614.X26361-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
References:  <20031125092614.X26361-100000@moo.sysabend.org>

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On Nov 25, "Jamie Bowden" wrote:

> 
> I just got upgraded to a Latitude D800, and have installed FreeBSD 5.1-R
> on it.  The onboard NIC is a Broadcom 570x based adapter but it is
> currently unrecognized by the bge driver.
> 
> I was planning on just adding the PCI ID to the driver and recompiling the
> kernel, but before I did this, I just wanted to know if anyone else has
> done this and if they were successful.
> 
> If no one else has done this yet, and I do this and it works, where's the
> best place to submit the PCI ID so it gets included into the driver for
> future generations?

I went down this same road about 2 months ago.  I moved to 5.1-current
(October 3), whose bge driver supports the onboard nic out of the box.  It 
works great.

Mike

PS FYI There's also a FreeBSD Dell D800 Support group:
http://ox.eicat.ca/mailman/listinfo/dell-d800



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