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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