4.8-RELEASE: Gigabit Ethernet support on Dell PowerEdge 1750

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, A. J. E. Cleland wrote:

> > 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.
>
Any 3.3V capable NIC like the 3com 905C or Intel EEPro100 will do, I did
it with an recent 100MBit 3com card that was lying around.

HTH
Olaf

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