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Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM5751 not attaching on IBM ThinkCentre A51
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On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 11:39 -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
> I have a new (several, actually) IBM ThinkCentre A51 (8131-16U and 8138-14U) 
> machine on which I'd like to run FreeBSD 6.0.  The machine has a "Barbados" 
> motherboard with an integrated Broadcom BCM5751 gigabit NIC.  Visually, the 
> Broadcom chip identifies itself as a BCM5751KFB.
> 
> The bge driver recognizes the chip and tries to attach, but fails:
> 
> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4101> mem 
> 0xd0000000-0xd000ffff irq 5 at device 0.0 on pci2
> bge0: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed!
> bge0: chip initialization failed
> device_attach: bge0 attach returned 6

Can you post the output of pciconf -l please?

Gavin