Dell PE800 NIC not recognized

[dima]

> I just took delivery of a Dell PE800 tower server.  I installed 
> 5.3-RELEASE amd64 on it, but it is not finding any ethernet device 
> (there is one built into the mobo).
> 
> According to the Dell PE800 spec sheet 
> (http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/800_specs.pdf) 
> it is a "Single embedded Broadcom 5721 Gigabit Ethernet controller".
570x series are surely supported. I tried those ones & they work quite ok. I have no idea if 572x are similar enough though.
Some troubleshooting ideas:
- is bge(4) driver compiled into your kernel (make sure miibus is also present)? try kldload if_bge if not
- ask the maintainer (Bill Paul <wpaul at windriver.com>), he could know much more about Broadcom NICs

> I've never had issues with network controllers on dells before, so I 
> didn't pay any attention to this before I bought it.  Does there exist 
> a driver for this thing?  For now I guess I need to just slap in an old 
> fxp card I've got sitting about to get this up and running.  Any help 
> would be appreciated.  Or is it a supported chip and I just have a dud?
> 
> 
> Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
> +1-301-869-4449 x806
> 
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