El Mar 21 Nov 2006 09:57, Peter A. Giessel escribió: > man em: > *** QUOTE *** > AUTHORS > The em driver was written by Intel Corporation > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > *** END QUOTE *** > > man bge: > *** QUOTE *** > AUTHORS > The bge driver was written by Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > *** END QUOTE ***
Hi: Forget about bge, since Bill Paul do not support this driver anymore! Here is the mail that he send me some months ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- El Mar 14 Mar 2006 22:22, escribió: > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Martin Alejandro > > Paredes Sanchez had to walk into mine and say: > > Hi: > > > > The problem is that the network card is not detected, is a network card > > Boradcom in the mother board. I see a chip with this numbers: > > > > Broadcom > > BCM5751FKFB > > HS0521 P21 > > 744910 N > > > > Whit "dmesg | grep -i ethe" I got: > > > > pci2: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no driver attached) > > > > With "pciconf -lv" I got: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x02f71014 chip=0x167e14e4 > > rev=0x11 > > hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > > device = 'BCM5751F NetXtreme Fast Ethernet PCI Express' > > class = network > > subclass = ethernet > > > > The manual for bge(4), says: > > > > bge -- Broadcom BCM570x/5714/5721/5750/5751/5789 PCI Gigabit Ethernet > > adapter driver > > > > is this nic supported? > > > > TIA > > Oh for crap's sake. How many people are going to keep bothering me with > this. For the umpity-umpth time, I do not support this driver anymore! > > Why don't you make a tiny bit of effort and find out for yourself if the > NIC is supported! Edit /sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h, and change this: > > #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5751M 0x167D > > to this: > > #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5751M 0x167E > > Then recompile your kernel and find out for yourself it it works. Then mail > all your findings to the freebsd-current mailing list and ask for someone > to update the driver. > > -Bill > > -- > =========================================================================== >== -Bill Paul (510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wind River Systems > =========================================================================== >== "Ignorance may be bliss, but delusion is ecstasy!" -Perki > =========================================================================== >== _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
