Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

[Paul Schmehl]

Yuan, Jue wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 May 2006 22:52, you wrote:
>> I'm trying to set up a new laptop, and I have an odd problem.  The
>> laptop has a Broadcomm NetXtreme 57xx Gig Nic, and the install didn't
>> recognize it.  The GENERIC kernel has support for the NIC (bge and
>> miibus), and I've done several installs on other hardware that detected
>> the NIC just fine, but this one doesn't.  There's nothing in dmesg, and
>> ifconfig only shows lo0.
>>
>> How do I correct this problem?
> 
> Does any other OS on this laptop could recognize the NIC ? Maybe it is
> a problem of hardware ;)
> 
It's a dual boot machine.  Windows XP recognizes the NIC just fine, but 
*not* with the default drivers that come with XP SP2.  I had to install 
the drivers from Dell.

Maybe there's something different about this NIC?

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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