two problems with broadcom NICs

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Friday 02 March 2007 03:47 am, Alessandro de Manzano wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a bunch of new Dell PowerEdge SC440 machines, but I've
> some problems running FreeBSD on them.
>
> OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (but also -stable of yesterday), SMP (but
> tried also GENERIC monoprocessor), both i386 and amd64, always same
> results.
>
> Situation: Two Broadcom NICs, one on the motherboard and one on
> PCI-express bus, here is a snippet of pciconf -lv (as you can see I
> had to add a 3COM PCI card in order to have connectivity)
>
>
> bge0 at pci3:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x165914e4 chip=0x165914e4
> rev=0x21 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>     device     = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet

I am not sure about this controller (BTW, you had to include dmesg 
output) but you may want to try -CURRENT.

> none1 at pci4:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x01df1028 chip=0x167a14e4
> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet

This controller is not supported in 6.2-RELEASE.  It should be 
supported in -CURRENT.

Jung-uk Kim