bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:48:20AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
>
> I finally figureed out that the removable floppy (which works both as an
> external usb and internall) is treated as a scsi device, not /dev/fd0.
> So I tried moving the drivers from the up to date machine.  No dice;
> they depend on another changed function.
>
> So I borrowed a usb zip drive, and found that a bzip2'd source tree is
> only 83M.  I've moved that, and have a new kernel compiling from a
> source tree updated this morning.  Am I going to have to do anything
> else to get the bge device detected, or will it just kernel installation
> and reboot take care of this?

If you've compiled the driver into the kernel, all you'll have to do is
configure the IP settings for the device. If you intend on using the
kernel loadable module, you'll have to kldload it before you configure
the network settings.

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
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