Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:50:10 -0600 From: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: pck <peceka@gmail.com> Cc: Rong-En Fan <grafan@gmail.com> Subject: Re: xSeries346 and FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <422F5372.8030201@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <f0f70e5e05030905305ee0f0b3@mail.gmail.com> References: <f0f70e5e0503090310444aa40@mail.gmail.com> <6eb82e050309032245c4a9d8@mail.gmail.com> <f0f70e5e05030905305ee0f0b3@mail.gmail.com>
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pck wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:22:09 +0800, Rong-En Fan <grafan@gmail.com> wrote: >>On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:10:09 +0100, pck <peceka@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
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