The question about Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter integrated in motherboard, on PCIe and FreeBSD6.3

[Leonid Satanovsky]

(1) Thank you for answering!
(2) Do I correctly understand that from the OS's "point of view" there's 
no difference between
Broadcom adapter being attached to PCI bus or to PCIe? Or am I wrong?

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Yes.  All of the Broadcom chips are the same and are supported
> by the bge driver.  However, Broadcom and it's various motherboard
> customers seem to like to use different PCI id strings for the
> chip, and so you may find when you install it, that it does not
> detect the chip.  A typical example of the problem is here:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/119779
>
> and the fix, shown in this PR, is easy to implement.  Basically,
> boot FreeBSD, if the chip isn't detected, run pciconf and take
> the output and patch the driver detection and you should be
> fine.
>
> Ted
>
>   
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>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Leonid
>> Satanovsky
>> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 4:13 AM
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: The question about Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter integrated
>> in motherboard, on PCIe and FreeBSD6.3
>>
>>
>> Hi all!
>> --------------------
>> The question is:
>> --------------------
>> will FreeBSD 6.3 support Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter integrated in 
>> motherboard (it's  on PCIe bus) ?
>>                The motherboard is ASUSTeK P5M2-M (RTL)
>>
>>
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Best regards,
Leonid E. Satanovsky,
system administrator / __end__,
Ariel metal.
tel.:  +7 495 786-42-90,981-41-45,  add.:  341	
tel.:  +7 495 786-43-03	
e-mail: leosat.it at ariel.ru
http://www.arielmetal.ru