RE: Broadcom NIC not recognized by FreeBSD?

From: David Christensen <davidch_at_broadcom.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:42:50 -0700
> > I am trying to install FreeBSD-CURRENT (svn rev 189289) on my Acer 
> > Aspire 5920 laptop.  The Broadcom NIC does not show up in 
> the list of 
> > interfaces with "ifconfig -l".
> > 
> > However, if I do "pciconf -l -v", I see:
> > 
> > bge0_at_pci0:8:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x01211025 
> chip=0x169314e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
> >   vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> >   device = 'BCM 5787A Ethernet Controller Broadcom Netlink Gigabit'
> >   class  = network
> >   subclass = ethernet
> 

The bge driver recognizes the controller but fails to get the 
adapter's BAR memory mapped by the OS.  Since it's only requesting
64KB it sounds like an OS issue.  If you remove any other PCI
devices in the system does the bge driver load?

Dave
Received on Thu Jun 11 2009 - 15:58:01 UTC

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