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Date:      Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:19:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Jonathan Disher <jdisher@parad.net>
Cc:        Long Le <le@cs.unc.edu>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, <net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Broadcom NetXtreme 5703 NIC
Message-ID:  <15864.57640.801997.698563@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212111505180.9633-200000@pasiphae>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212111332570.886-200000@le-cs.cs.unc.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212111505180.9633-200000@pasiphae>

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Jonathan Disher writes:
 > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Long Le wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi all,
 > >
 > > We installed FreeBSD 4.7 on an IBM eServer machine with an on-board
 > > copper Broadcom BCM5703X and put two more fiber Broadcom BCM5703X NICs
 > > into the machine. We used cvs to get the latest update on the stable
 > > branch yesterday. However, only the copper NIC and one fiber NIC
 > > come up. The log message says "bge2: MII without any PHY!" for the
 > > second fiber NIC. Does anyone have any suggestion for us?
 > 
 > I'm in somewhat the same boat.  We just purchased and installed two ASUS
 > A7V8X motherboards with onboard Broadcom BCM5702 Gigabit ethernet
 > controllers, and we're having some problems getting them to work.  I
 > cvsup'd to the latest -STABLE last night, and the controller is found, but
 > it's using ukphy instead of brgphy.  Has anyone gotten this controller to

New phy support which is required for the BCM5703 was merged from
current yesterday.  You may which to try a more recent stable and
verify that you have rev 1.4.2.10 of sys/dev/mii/miidevs.h

Drew

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