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

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

There is no difference for this driver.

Ted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Leonid
> Satanovsky
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 2:11 AM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: The question about Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter
> integrated in motherboard, on PCIe and FreeBSD6.3
> 
> 
> (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
> >
> >   
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >> [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
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