-----Original Message----- From: Glen Barber [mailto:glen.j.bar...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 May 2009 22:58 To: lcon...@go2france.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dell broadcom nic & fbsd 7.1 AMD64
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Len Conrad <lcon...@go2france.com> wrote: >> >>Could you paste the output of the following: >> >> cat /etc/rc.conf | grep bc0 > > sorry, is bce not bc, Was going to be my next suggestion... I couldn't find 'bc' in GENERIC for amd64. > > ifconfig_bce0="inet 10.2.17.8 netmask 255.255.0.0" > >>and output from: >> >> dhclient bc0 > > I ran that on a local machine and it hung up the interface, requiring a warm > reboot. > > I'll see what happens with my client's machine. > I assume you substituted the correct interface name? (bce0 in place of bc0) -- Glen Barber _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Just took a quick peek at my pfsense machine hp D530 USDT which has a broadcom gigabit NIC, phpsysinfo reports bge0: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x3003. Might be worth trying that driver. Regards Graeme _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"