From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 15:41:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218995B7 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:41:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bright@mu.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061328FC08 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Alfreds-MacBook-Pro-5.local (c-67-180-208-218.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.208.218]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 644691A3DDD; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:41:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50A65EB5.7040004@mu.org> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:41:41 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rjk@wintek.com Subject: Re: bge on the new Mac Mini References: <50A65BFC.7030406@wintek.com> In-Reply-To: <50A65BFC.7030406@wintek.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:41:42 -0000 Often that is all that is needed. It's worth a shot and reporting back. Do you know how to update the table in the driver, rebuild/install kernel and check? -Alfred On 11/16/12 7:30 AM, Richard Kuhns wrote: > Hi all, > > Over the last month or so I've installed FreeBSD 9 (-stable) on several Mac > Minis via the memstick image; they seem to be pretty good little boxes for > things like offsite secondary nameservers, for example, and they're easily > replaced in case of problems. > > However, the newest minis have slightly different hardware, and FreeBSD can't > find the built-in NIC. pciconf -lv on the new mini shows it as > > none3@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x168614e4 chip=0x168614e4 rev=0x01 > hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > The previous edition mini (that works) reports > > bge0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x16b414e4 chip=0x16b414e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > device = 'NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > Is there a chance that adding the new card/chip info to the current driver would > allow it to work? I'll be happy to test and report back. I'm afraid I'm not > familiar enough with hardware at that level to figure out the patch myself. > > Thanks!