Hi,
FreeBSD 6.2 Kernel don't support Broadcom NIC BCM 5708S model. One need
to patch kernel Source to make it live. Below i written steps i took.
1, Download patch
http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/patches/bce-serdes-20070111.tar.gz
2, cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
3, cp GENRIC MYKERNEL
4, mkdir /root/kernels
5, cp GENRIC /root/kernels/MYKERNEL
6. ln -s /root/kernels/MYKERNEL
7, cd /usr/src
8, make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
9 make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
Now Reboot !!
Sachin Sharma
Sr. Engineer Systems (Linux)
Net4India Ltd.
D-25
Sector 3
Noida-201301
INDIA
Tel: 0120-5323500
Fax: 0120-5323520
URL: http://www.net4.in
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Scott Long wrote:
Sachin Sharma wrote:
Hi All,
NIC (Network Card) is not detected by FreeBSD 6.2 into PowerEdge
Blade 1955 Server. I need FreeBSD in these server . Please help me.
Thanks
Support for this card has been added since 6.2 was released.
Scott
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