Date: 22 Oct 2003 18:58:32 +0100 From: "A. J. E. Cleland" <ajc219@cam.ac.uk> To: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8-RELEASE: Gigabit Ethernet support on Dell PowerEdge 1750 Message-ID: <E1ACNFg-0005v9-Tw@maroon.csi.cam.ac.uk>
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On Oct 22 2003, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Andrew Cleland wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I'm trying and failing to get 4.8-RELEASE to recognise the two Broadcom > > 5704C based NICs on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server. > > Hi! > > Known issue, the 5704C PCI ID wasn't known to the bge-driver around > 4.8-R. > > take a FreeBSD 4.9-PRE, there it will work. > > Or install a 4.8-R, and update it somehow (put in a third NIC, cvsup, > and make world, or copy over the /usr/src from another machine via CD) > > HTH > Olaf > Aha, that would explain it. I'll try the /usr/src copy idea, as I don't have any PCI-X NICs that'll fit the 1750. Thanks v. much. Andrew. -- Andrew Cleland. College Computer Officer, Peterhouse, Cambridge. http://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/ Tel. (0)1223 (3)38226.
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