Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

[Alex Zbyslaw]

pauls at utdallas.edu wrote:

> --On May 3, 2006 10:39:52 PM -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt 
> <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> If it's still not working then yes.  Incidentally you need to
>> turn off SSL on your e-mail, I cannot open your mails with
>> my normal mail client.
>>
> It's working fine since I installed 6.1.  The odd thing is, I thought 
> I needed the bce driver, but the 6.1 install detected the NIC and used 
> the bge driver.  That driver is available in 6.0 as well, yet it 
> didn't work in that install.

Why is this confusing?  Drivers get updated to cover newer versions of 
chips which didn't exist or weren't available to the developer when 
originally written.  If you really care then check out the CVS history 
for your driver from the FreeBSD site (developer / CVS Repository / web 
interface).

--Alex