Broadcom BCM5721 not supported by bge in 5.3-RELEASE?

Chris Phillips SysAdmin at Rainbow-IT.net
Mon Feb 28 13:21:06 GMT 2005


I had the same problem, but saw that the required element was in 'HEAD', 
so I did a cvsup RELENG_5 & it's now operational.  I'm a bit new to all 
this, so that may not be the most elegant solution, but it did the trick 
for me.

Tom Fischer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install Freebsd 5.3-RELEASE on an IBM eServer x336, which 
> has two
> Broadcom BCM 5721 Gigabit Ethernet cards.  Unfortunately, it appears
> as if the bge driver doesn't support these cards in FreeBSD 5?
> 
> This type of interface is support in FreeBSD 4.11.  Is there any chance
> of getting supported un FreeBSD 5 as well?
> 
> best regards,
> 
> tom
> 
> tfischer at rain.fr
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