Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:28:59 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Sachin Sharma <sharma.s@net4.in> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC (Network Card) is not detected by FreeBSD 6.2 into PowerEdge Blade 1955 Server Message-ID: <20070517172859.GA69514@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <464C5ADF.6020309@net4.in> References: <464B114C.5080703@net4.in> <464B1D6A.1040809@samsco.org> <464C5ADF.6020309@net4.in>
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On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:08:39PM +0530, Sachin Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > FreeBSD 6.2 Kernel don't support Broadcom NIC BCM 5708S model. One need to > patch kernel Source to make it live. Below i written steps i took. > > 1, Download patch > http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/patches/bce-serdes-20070111.tar.gz > 2, cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > 3, cp GENRIC MYKERNEL > 4, mkdir /root/kernels > 5, cp GENRIC /root/kernels/MYKERNEL > 6. ln -s /root/kernels/MYKERNEL > 7, cd /usr/src > 8, make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL > 9 make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL > > Now Reboot !! The code/patch in question was committed to the RELENG_6 tree a while ago. All you need to do is cvsup/csup your sourcecode to the most "recent snapshot/version" of 6.2 (not what's on the CD, and not 6.2-RELEASE), and that should suffice. For instructions on how to do this, see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html Note that 6, however, comes with a tool called "csup" (the C version of cvsup), which performs identically and does not require you to install ports/net/cvsup. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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