Broadcom NIC not recognized by FreeBSD?

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Jun 10 18:03:50 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 10 June 2009 1:42:11 pm Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install FreeBSD-CURRENT (svn rev 189289) on my Acer Aspire 
5920
> laptop.  The Broadcom NIC does not show up
> in the list of interfaces with "ifconfig -l".
> 
> However, if I do "pciconf -l -v", I see:
> 
> bge0 at pci0:8:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x01211025 chip=0x169314e4 rev=0x02 
hdr=0x00
>   vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>   device = 'BCM 5787A Ethernet Controller Broadcom Netlink Gigabit'
>   class  = network
>   subclass = ethernet

Can you include the dmesg output for the bge0 device (and any phy devices)?

-- 
John Baldwin


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