Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:37:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> To: william paul <wpaul@windriver.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unrecognized Broadcom 570x Chip on Dell1750 Message-ID: <20030922173507.T13423@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <200309191624.JAA18255@huisne.wrs.com> References: <200309191624.JAA18255@huisne.wrs.com>
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, william paul wrote: > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Olaf Hoyer > had to walk into mine and say: > > > HI! > > > > Got @work a new Dell 1750 machine, serverworks Chipset w/Xeon CPU, also > > dual gigE Broadcom chipsets. > > FreeBSD 4.8-R failed to recognize the chip, but Knoppix 3.2 (Linux > > Distro, based on debian iirc, recognized the broadcom chips, iirc as > > 5704 ones) > > Yeah yeah yeah. Try a FreeBSD 4.9 snapshot. Support for the 5704 was > added after FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE came out. 4.9 should also support > the 5705 chips. > Hi! Thanks, I put in an xl, cvsupped, and built world, and now it runs... Someone could add the Dell 1750 as being compatible with FreeBSD 4.9-Prerelease, also being mentioned in the bge(4) manpage. With kind regards 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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