Freebsd 5.3 with Broadcom BCM5721 PCI Express GbE

[Christian Brueffer]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:51:02PM -0800, Amandeep Pannu wrote:
> Hi Roger,
> 
> I installed the FreeBSd 5.3-Rel and also FreeBSd 5.2.1, no luck.
> Now the kernel GENERic file shows bge  # 570XX
> I think these are  different BCM5721.
> 

The comment in GENERIC is not accurate, the bge driver supports 5721
based cards for a couple of month now (the manpage in RELENG_5 is correct).

You can either update to RELENG_5 to get a newer driver, or wait for
FreeBSD 5.4 (it's not too far away).

- Christian

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