Unrecognized Broadcom 570x Chip on Dell1750

[william paul]

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Olaf Hoyer
had to walk into mine and say:
 
> HI!
> 
> Got @work a new Dell 1750 machine, serverworks Chipset w/Xeon CPU, also
> dual gigE Broadcom chipsets.
> FreeBSD 4.8-R failed to recognize the chip, but Knoppix 3.2 (Linux
> Distro, based on debian iirc, recognized the broadcom chips, iirc as
> 5704 ones)

Yeah yeah yeah. Try a FreeBSD 4.9 snapshot. Support for the 5704 was
added after FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE came out. 4.9 should also support
the 5705 chips.

-Bill
 
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