NIC (Network Card) is not detected by FreeBSD 6.2 into PowerEdge Blade 1955 Server

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:08:39PM +0530, Sachin Sharma wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
>  FreeBSD 6.2 Kernel don't support Broadcom NIC BCM 5708S model. One need to 
>  patch kernel Source to make it live.  Below i written steps i took.
> 
>  1, Download patch 
>  http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/patches/bce-serdes-20070111.tar.gz
>  2,  cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
>  3,  cp GENRIC   MYKERNEL
>  4,  mkdir /root/kernels
>  5,  cp GENRIC /root/kernels/MYKERNEL
>  6.  ln -s /root/kernels/MYKERNEL
>  7,  cd /usr/src
>  8,  make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
>  9   make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
> 
>  Now Reboot !!

The code/patch in question was committed to the RELENG_6 tree a while
ago.

All you need to do is cvsup/csup your sourcecode to the most "recent
snapshot/version" of 6.2 (not what's on the CD, and not 6.2-RELEASE),
and that should suffice.  For instructions on how to do this, see:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

Note that 6, however, comes with a tool called "csup" (the C version
of cvsup), which performs identically and does not require you to
install ports/net/cvsup.

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