Re: Broadcom BCM5751 not attaching on IBM ThinkCentre A51

On Friday 07 October 2005 12:58, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 11:39 -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
> > I have a new (several, actually) IBM ThinkCentre A51 (8131-16U and
> > 8138-14U) machine on which I'd like to run FreeBSD 6.0.  The machine
> > has a "Barbados" motherboard with an integrated Broadcom BCM5751
> > gigabit NIC.  Visually, the Broadcom chip identifies itself as a
> > BCM5751KFB.
> >
> > The bge driver recognizes the chip and tries to attach, but fails:
> >
> > bge0: <Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4101> mem
> > 0xd0000000-0xd000ffff irq 5 at device 0.0 on pci2
> > bge0: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed!
> > bge0: chip initialization failed
> > device_attach: bge0 attach returned 6
>
> Can you post the output of pciconf -l please?

Attached, along with dmesg output and kernel config file (basically a 
stripped-down GENERIC).

The machine is now running -CURRENT from yesterday.  if_bge was loaded as a 
module prior to running dmesg and pciconf.

JN