RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread pauls
--On May 4, 2006 9:33:01 PM -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I understand what you're saying, you're saying that the driver only gets updated for the latest OS? That seems a bit absurd to me. Wouldn't the bge driver be the same for every OS version that it's available fo

RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Schmehl >Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:06 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized > > >Alex Zbyslaw wrote: >&g

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paul Schmehl wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: 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

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Schmehl
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: 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

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On May 3, 2006 10:39:52 PM -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. T

RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-03 Thread pauls
--On May 3, 2006 10:39:52 PM -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
y Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted >Mittelstaedt >Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:18 PM >To: Paul Schmehl; FreeBSD Questions >Subject: RE

RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-03 Thread pauls
--On May 3, 2006 10:18:14 PM -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul, Please post the output of "pciconf -lv" I've already formatted and installed 6.1 RC2. Do you still want this? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texa

RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Paul, Please post the output of "pciconf -lv" Ted >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Schmehl >Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 7:53 AM >To: FreeBSD Questions >Subject: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized > > >I'm trying to set u

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The really odd thing is, I installed 6.1 RC2 this afternoon, and it found the NIC and used bge as the driver! Wonder why 6.0 couldn't do that? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Well, IANAE on driver code. However, somehow or another the coder uses a string of inf

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-03 Thread pauls
--On May 3, 2006 6:02:53 PM -0500 Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: Hmm...bce *isn't* in the GENERIC kernel for i386 6.0 RELEASE. Is this a new driver? Yes. From bce(4): HISTORY The bce device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 6.1. The really odd thing is, I

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Paul Schmehl wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It's a dual boot machine. Windows XP recognizes the NIC just fine, but *not* with the default drivers that come with XP SP2. I had to install the drivers from Dell. Maybe there's something different about th

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It's a dual boot machine. Windows XP recognizes the NIC just fine, but *not* with the default drivers that come with XP SP2. I had to install the drivers from Dell. Maybe there's something different about this NIC? Dell often d

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yuan, Jue wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 May 2006 22:52, you wrote: > >> I'm trying to set up a new laptop, and I have an odd problem. The > >> laptop has a Broadcomm NetXtreme 57xx Gig Nic, and the install didn't > >> recognize it. The GENERIC kernel has s

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
Yuan, Jue wrote: On Wednesday 03 May 2006 22:52, you wrote: I'm trying to set up a new laptop, and I have an odd problem. The laptop has a Broadcomm NetXtreme 57xx Gig Nic, and the install didn't recognize it. The GENERIC kernel has support for the NIC (bge and miibus), and I've done several i

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-03 Thread Yuan, Jue
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 22:52, you wrote: > I'm trying to set up a new laptop, and I have an odd problem. The > laptop has a Broadcomm NetXtreme 57xx Gig Nic, and the install didn't > recognize it. The GENERIC kernel has support for the NIC (bge and > miibus), and I've done several installs on o