Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Thu May 4 05:18:17 UTC 2006


Paul,

  Please post the output of "pciconf -lv"

Ted

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>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl
>Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 7:53 AM
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>Subject: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized
>
>
>I'm trying to set up a new laptop, and I have an odd problem.  The
>laptop has a Broadcomm NetXtreme 57xx Gig Nic, and the install didn't
>recognize it.  The GENERIC kernel has support for the NIC (bge and
>miibus), and I've done several installs on other hardware that detected
>the NIC just fine, but this one doesn't.  There's nothing in dmesg, and
>ifconfig only shows lo0.
>
>How do I correct this problem?
>
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