Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

pauls at utdallas.edu pauls at utdallas.edu
Thu May 4 00:11:32 UTC 2006


--On May 3, 2006 6:02:53 PM -0500 Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>
>> Hmm...bce *isn't* in the GENERIC kernel for i386 6.0 RELEASE.  Is this a
>> new driver?
>>
> Yes.  From bce(4):
>
> HISTORY
>       The bce device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 6.1.
>
The really odd thing is, I installed 6.1 RC2 this afternoon, and it found 
the NIC and used bge as the driver!  Wonder why 6.0 couldn't do that?

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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