Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

Is the bge driver enabled by default?

-Dan

> I don't know what broadcom chip your MB has but the majority of those cards
> are supported here:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/bge/
>
> You should be able to just copy over the 2 files to your src/sys/dev/bge/
> directory and
> recompile your 6.1-release kernel with no problems.  I did.
>
> Look carefully at the chip on your MB and post the BCM model number on it
> if this doesen't work.
>
> Ted
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm at prime.gushi.org>
> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at toybox.placo.com>
> Cc: <questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 5:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)
>
>
>> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>
>>> Use the latest Broadcom driver from FreeBSD CVS.  The one included in
> 6.1
>>> release is buggy.
>>
>> Which driver is that?  My 6.1 install won't see them at all:
>>
>> pci4: <PCI bus> on pcib4
>> pci4: <network, ethernet> at device 4.0 (no driver attached)
>> pci4: <network, ethernet> at device 4.1 (no driver attached)
>>
>> Also, I'm running 6.1-RELEASE, will the cvs drivers from CURRENT work?
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>>>
>>> Ted
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm at prime.gushi.org>
>>> To: <questions at freebsd.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 5:02 PM
>>> Subject: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hey all, I have a Transport GT24 (B3992 Motherboard), and while it has
> one
>>>> intel nic which works well, I'd like to be able to use the onboard
>>>> broadcom network cards.  Is there a known way of making them work?  I
> seem
>>>> to recall some dealy where you could use a windows driver?
>>>>
>>>> -Dan
>>>>
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--------Dan Mahoney--------
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