bge on the new Mac Mini

[Alfred Perlstein]

Often that is all that is needed.  It's worth a shot and reporting back.

Do you know how to update the table in the driver, rebuild/install 
kernel and check?

-Alfred

On 11/16/12 7:30 AM, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Over the last month or so I've installed FreeBSD 9 (-stable) on several Mac
> Minis via the memstick image; they seem to be pretty good little boxes for
> things like offsite secondary nameservers, for example, and they're easily
> replaced in case of problems.
>
> However, the newest minis have slightly different hardware, and FreeBSD can't
> find the built-in NIC. pciconf -lv on the new mini shows it as
>
> none3 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x168614e4 chip=0x168614e4 rev=0x01
> hdr=0x00
>      vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>      class      = network
>      subclass   = ethernet
>
> The previous edition mini (that works) reports
>
> bge0 at pci0:2:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x16b414e4 chip=0x16b414e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>      vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>      device     = 'NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe'
>      class      = network
>      subclass   = ethernet
>
> Is there a chance that adding the new card/chip info to the current driver would
> allow it to work? I'll be happy to test and report back. I'm afraid I'm not
> familiar enough with hardware at that level to figure out the patch myself.
>
> Thanks!