Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:54:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8-RELEASE: Gigabit Ethernet support on Dell PowerEdge 1750 Message-ID: <20031022195247.H55599@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <20031022181150.I60155@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: <002801c398b6$24e7b2a0$01181aac@ajc219> <20031022181150.I60155@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Konrad Heuer wrote: > I've three DELL PE 2650 running with 4.8-R; the Broadcom cards work fine. > While booting, the kernel reports: > Hi! The 2650 use an older version of the Broadcom chips than the 1750, with different PCI ID. > Are you sure the NICs aren't disabled in the BIOS setup? Sorry for using > the word 'Linux', but I'm not fanatic. Maybe you could try to boot a Linux > kernel from CD (Knoppix or so?) and watch what happens? > Knoppix 3.2 recognizes them fine. For the archives: Solution: Upgrade to 4.9-pre or later, support has been merged in some weeks before 4.9-pre. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)
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