xSeries346 and FreeBSD 5.3

[Jon Noack]

pck wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:22:09 +0800, Rong-En Fan <grafan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:10:09 +0100, pck <peceka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>Welcome,
>>>
>>>I've just bought IBM xSeries346 server. There was no problem with
>>>installing FreeBSD 5.3, but problem is with LAN card - BCM5721 (I
>>>think, reseller told me this name).
>>>Is there any possibility to run this card?
>>
>>You have to install a 5-STABLE or manually get following files
>>
>>src/sys/dev/bge/*
>>src/sys/dev/mii/miidevs
>>src/sys/dev/mii/brgphy.c
>>
>>and recompile kernel.
>>without those two mii files, you can only run 100-baseTX.
> 
> From where i must download these files?
> 
> I've just made cvsup on my workstation (*default release=cvs
> tag=RELENG_5) and got:

So you updated your source to 5-STABLE.

> saucepan# pwd
> /usr/src/sys/dev/bge
> saucepan# ls -al
> total 186
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel     512 Mar  9 12:51 .
> drwxr-xr-x  155 root  wheel    2560 Mar  9 12:53 ..
> -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel  101313 Mar  2 21:29 if_bge.c
> -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel   81011 Mar  2 11:08 if_bgereg.h
> saucepan#

Looks like what I have here.  Follow the directions near the bottom of 
/usr/src/UPDATING to update the system from source:
"To rebuild everything and install it on the current system."

When you're done you should be running 5-STABLE (currently 5.4-PRERELEASE).

Jon