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eodyna wrote: | hi there, | | Work Recently purchased a dell optiplex gx280. They come with a Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller and a 40g WD sata drive. When i installed 5.2.1 it complained that the disk geometey was incorrect(77504/16/63). I tried changing it to the correct (4863/255/63)setting by pressing (G) at the fdisk configuration screen, and the value 4863/255/63 was already entered in the pop up box. i saved it, and proceed with the rest of the install. At the network screen, it wasn't able to detect the network card. I was able to find that some people were able to get a 57xx working on their freebsd machine. | There are a few other areas with "no driver attached" such as disply and audio, but i haven't looked into those of yet. | After the installation completed i ran dmesg and the disk geometry didn't change to the new settings. Did i do something wrong with that? | | Can anyone pointack the me in the right direction on how to get this sorted? Any reccomendations would be great.
I just bought a GX280, and installed 5.3-RC on it. It works great once you get passed the USB keyboard problem (see posts on freebsd-current@). ~ The bge network interface works great. I don't think the PCI IDs were added into 5.2.1, so you'll either have to backport the 5.3 bge driver, or just go with 5.3.
Joe
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