Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed May 3 16:17:30 UTC 2006
Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> writes:
> 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?
Dell often does unexpectedly proprietary things like that, so it's
possible.
I think you may need the bce(4) driver rther than bge(4), but that is
in the GENERIC kernel these days also.
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