a little trouble with 5.2.1

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu Nov 4 19:38:12 PST 2004


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eodyna wrote:
| hi there,
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| Work Recently purchased a dell optiplex gx280. They come with a
Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller and a 40g WD sata drive. When
i installed 5.2.1 it complained that the disk geometey was
incorrect(77504/16/63). I tried changing it to the correct
(4863/255/63)setting by pressing (G) at the fdisk configuration screen,
and the value 4863/255/63 was already entered in the pop up box. i saved
it, and proceed with the rest of the install. At the network screen, it
wasn't able to detect the network card. I was able to find that some
people were able to get a 57xx working on their freebsd machine.
| There are a few other areas with "no driver attached" such as disply
and audio, but i haven't looked into those of yet.
| After the installation completed i ran dmesg and the disk geometry
didn't change to the new settings. Did i do something wrong with that?
|
| Can anyone pointack the me in the right direction on how to get this
sorted? Any reccomendations would be great.

I just bought a GX280, and installed 5.3-RC on it.  It works great once
you get passed the USB keyboard problem (see posts on freebsd-current@).
~ The bge network interface works great.  I don't think the PCI IDs were
added into 5.2.1, so you'll either have to backport the 5.3 bge driver,
or just go with 5.3.

Joe

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