Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Thu May 4 05:39:55 UTC 2006


If it's still not working then yes.  Incidentally you need to
turn off SSL on your e-mail, I cannot open your mails with
my normal mail client.

Ted

>I've already formatted and installed 6.1 RC2.  Do you still want this?

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Ted
>Mittelstaedt
>Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:18 PM
>To: Paul Schmehl; FreeBSD Questions
>Subject: RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized
>
>
>
>Paul,
>
>  Please post the output of "pciconf -lv"
>
>Ted
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 7:53 AM
>>To: FreeBSD Questions
>>Subject: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized
>>
>>
>>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?
>>
>>--
>>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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