NIC driver question

[Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez]

El Mar 21 Nov 2006 09:57, Peter A. Giessel escribió:
> man em:
> *** QUOTE ***
> AUTHORS
>      The em driver was written by Intel Corporation
>      <freebsdnic at mailbox.intel.com>.
> *** END QUOTE ***
>
> man bge:
> *** QUOTE ***
> AUTHORS
>      The bge driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul at windriver.com>.
> *** 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.

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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:
> >
> > none3 at pci2:0:0: 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
> wpaul at windriver.com | Wind River Systems
> ===========================================================================
>== "Ignorance may be bliss, but delusion is ecstasy!" -Perki
> ===========================================================================
>==