Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 16:35:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: John Dhmioyrgos <jd@teq.org> Subject: Re: BCM5703 GigE ifs on Supermicro X5DL8-GG m/b not detected on5.1-BETA2 or 4.8 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10305231633310.16303-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <20030523155905.L38182@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Fri, 23 May 2003, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 2003, John Dhmioyrgos wrote: > > > This is a Supermicro X5DL8-GG motherboard (ServerWorks GC-LE chipset) in a > > Supermicro 7403L-8R box, with what they claim are onboard Broadcom 5703 > > GigE ifs. OS set to Other in BIOS (latest ver), ACPI/Hyperthreading on. > > Broadcom NICs in an Intel chipset system? What crack is Supermicro > smoking? (note the pcib & etc. chips are vendor 0x8086 which is Intel.) I don't know about Supermicro, but ASUS uses Broadcom chips with an Intel chipset on at least one workstation board: http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?langs=09&m=P4G8X%20Deluxe > Also, 'pciconf -lv' output is more useful, it'll print the text strings > and make identifying the proper ID much easier. > > -- > Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org > _______________________________________________ Tom
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