The question about Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter integrated in motherboard, on PCIe and FreeBSD6.3

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Yes.  All of the Broadcom chips are the same and are supported
by the bge driver.  However, Broadcom and it's various motherboard
customers seem to like to use different PCI id strings for the
chip, and so you may find when you install it, that it does not
detect the chip.  A typical example of the problem is here:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/119779

and the fix, shown in this PR, is easy to implement.  Basically,
boot FreeBSD, if the chip isn't detected, run pciconf and take
the output and patch the driver detection and you should be
fine.

Ted

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Leonid
> Satanovsky
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 4:13 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: The question about Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter integrated
> in motherboard, on PCIe and FreeBSD6.3
> 
> 
> Hi all!
> --------------------
> The question is:
> --------------------
> will FreeBSD 6.3 support Broadcom BCM5721 ethernet adapter integrated in 
> motherboard (it's  on PCIe bus) ?
>                The motherboard is ASUSTeK P5M2-M (RTL)
> 
> 
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