Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:14:08 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Jackie S. McCracken" <jackie.mccracken@jacktel.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unrecognized hardware with 5.1 Message-ID: <200311161114.08341.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <2E6D53542F70522D@jacktel.com> References: <2E6D53542F70522D@jacktel.com>
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On Sunday 16 November 2003 08:17 am, Jackie S. McCracken wrote: > I'm trying to build a Dell 1750 with 5.1. After the kern and mfsroot > floppies have loaded and the system starts to come up it reports an > unrecognized chip set then once I try to run the ftp utility to load a > minimum configuration it cannot see the NIC interface i.e. it's not part of > the choices for the download. The system came with a driver disk for the > Broadcom NIC which is a 5704 gigabit interface but it only has drivers for > Windows, Linux, and some other OS's but nothing for FreeBSD. According to > the Dell info it is a ServerWorks GC LE Chipset with 2:1 memory > interleaving. How do I get the system to run? I need to get it up and > running ASAP. > Did you try building a kernel with the "bge" device? Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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