Unrecognized Broadcom 570x Chip on Dell1750

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, william paul wrote:

> 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.
>

Hi!

Thanks, I put in an xl, cvsupped, and built world, and now it runs...

Someone could add the Dell 1750 as being compatible with FreeBSD
4.9-Prerelease, also being mentioned in the bge(4) manpage.

With kind regards

Olaf


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