Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet on freebsd 5.3

eodyna eodyna at yahoo.com.au
Tue May 24 23:45:36 PDT 2005


heh 

i should have known.

has anyone been able to get this to work on their
machine? if so may you give me a heads up?

id rather not move to 5.4.

ta
ams
--- Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> eodyna <eodyna at yahoo.com.au> writes:
> 
> > im trying to get gigabit to work with my dell
> optiplex
> > machine. i read from another message
> > 
> > ">Answering (maybe) my own question, it looks like
> the
> > changes to miidevs 
> > > and brgphy didn't make the 5.3 cut, even though
> the
> > changes to bge did.
> > > 
> > > Will advise.
> > > 
> > 
> > That was it.
> > 
> > Pulled in miidevs, brgphy.c, brgphyreg.h from HEAD
> > 
> > "
> > 
> > but im not sure what the person meant by pulling
> it in
> > from HEAD.
> > 
> > can someone explain it to me? 
> 
> Since you're not a software expert, playing around
> with the source
> code will be more work than it's worth.  If you
> upgrade to 5.4, you
> will probably get the changes you need
> automatically.
> 

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