PHY drivers for Proliant ML370

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Tue Apr 1 03:33:31 PST 2003


James Long writes: 

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:02:04PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
>> 
>> The 4.6 CD installs OK, but it does not recognise the on-board PHYs....
> 
> Drop an Intel (fxp) NIC in there temporarily, install, cvsup sources, 
> and update the OS to 4-STABLE.  I bet then it'll recognize the Broadcom, 
> you can change /etc/rc.conf to initialize bge0 or whatever instead of 
> fxp0, and then remove your Intel NIC. 
> 
James, 

I'd love to - I just don't have any 64-bit PCI NIC cards lying about :(  The 
MoBo in this box has 5 or 6 PCI slots, but they are ALL 64-bit. 

I also noticed another poster raised the same problem a few days ago using 
4.7.  Do you know of a specific patch to the bge driver which is in -STABLE, 
or was this suggestion really just a best guess suggestion? 

BTW: my question sounds cheeky - but I mean it sincerely. 

Thanks,
Patrick.


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