Driver Problem: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet

Chris Rees utisoft at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 9 01:48:14 PDT 2009


2009/4/9 Alexander Tarasov <mr.tapac at gmail.com>:
> Hi, All!
>
> After installing FreeBSD 7.1 I've got problem with my network card.
>
> [root ~]# uname -a
> FreeBSD  7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #1: Thu Apr  9 13:34:46 NOVST
> 2009 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP  i386
> [root ~]# pciconf -lv
> ... cut ...
> none3 at pci0:6:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x014b1025
> chip=0x168414e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>    class      = newtwork
>    subclass   = ethernet
> [root ~]# dmesg | grep "bge"
> [root ~]# ifconfig -a
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>
> I've compiled my kernel with "device miibus" and "device bge" (my
> kernel config is GENERIC without FireWare & RAIDs).
>
> What does it mean? Is somethere driver for this card?
>
> Sorry for my terrible English =)
>
> Alexander V Tarasov
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Are you sure you didn't comment out any miibus lines or anything like
that? Try with the GENERIC kernel, and kldload bge to see what
happens.

Chris


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