4.8-RELEASE: Gigabit Ethernet support on Dell PowerEdge 1750

[A. J. E. Cleland]

On Oct 22 2003, Olaf Hoyer wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Andrew Cleland wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm trying and failing to get 4.8-RELEASE to recognise the two Broadcom
> > 5704C based NICs on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Known issue, the 5704C PCI ID wasn't known to the bge-driver around
> 4.8-R.
> 
> take a FreeBSD 4.9-PRE, there it will work.
> 
> Or install a 4.8-R, and update it somehow (put in a third NIC, cvsup,
> and make world, or copy over the /usr/src from another machine via CD)
> 
> HTH
> Olaf
> 

Aha, that would explain it. I'll try the /usr/src copy idea, as I don't 
have any PCI-X NICs that'll fit the 1750.

Thanks v. much.

Andrew.

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