(1) Thank you for answering!
(2) Do I correctly understand that from the OS's point of view there's
no difference between
Broadcom adapter being attached to PCI bus or to PCIe? Or am I wrong?
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Yes. All of the Broadcom chips are the same and are supported
by the bge
There is no difference for this driver.
Ted
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Subject: Re: The question about Broadcom
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)
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
