I've just changed to using freebsd on my desktop pc, my Asus A7V8X motherboad has a onboard Broadcom chip - this just stopped working under windows and turned into a unknown device. Asus or vendor's support never replied so I just picked up a new fxp card.
However under FreeBSD it hangs for a while at boot between the ata4 and pci0 line form dmesg (ata4 is a Promise PDC20376 SATA150 w/ ad4 on it): ata4: at 0xec000000 on atapci0 ata4: [MPSAFE] pci0: <old> at device 9.0 (no driver attached)
(I have done some googling and found older Promice ide controllers to cause boot hangs on older versions of freebsd 4.4 - but not sata and 5.x so I'm hoping its the Broadcom chip)
pciconf shows this device to be a:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x008000 card=0x80008000 chip=0x800014e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
class = old
I've tried loading the kernel module if_bfe (and if_bge) but still no new interface, windows used the card as a BCM440x - but the box does say gigabit lan.
If it is possible to somehow get this card working I would really appreicate
any help in "resurrecting" it, as I then can use my box as a bridge and
do some traffic shaping on my lan :)
Just skipping the device altogether and avoid the boot time hang is also looking very attractive!
-Bjorn _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
