supporting broadcom gig BCM5751

Peter Radcliffe pir at pir.net
Fri Sep 17 14:23:33 PDT 2004


John Kennedy <jk at jk.homeunix.net> probably said:
>   I have a few Dell 2650s at work and I had to load FreeBSD 5.2.1 (vs.
> 4.x-STABLE, which at the time was 4.9).  They've all been up to long so I
> don't have any handy dmesg output to compare to yours.
> 
>   pciconf gives me this, which may be of some help:
> 
> 	bge0 at pci3:6:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x01211028 chip=0x16a714e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
> 	    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> 	    device   = 'BCM5703X NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet'
> 	    class    = network
> 	    subclass = ethernet
> 
>   The "chip" field is close to yours, but not an exact match.

I have other machines with Broadcom gig ether cards, including another
Dell, but it's this exact chipset I'm having trouble with not anything
that is close.

P.

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pir



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