Subject: Re: bge(4) problem
To: Christoph Kaegi <kgc@zhwin.ch>
From: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 01/16/2004 09:55:06
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:57:43AM +0100, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> 
> Fellow NetBSD users
> 
> I have a Supermicro 6023P-8 board with a Compaq NC6770 GBit SX NIC
> (that's a Broadcom 5701) on it.
> 
> The card is recognized, but dmesg doesn't say anything about PHY's:
> 
> -------------------------------------- 8< --------------------------------------
> bge0 at pci3 dev 1 function 0: Broadcom BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet
> bge0: interrupting at irq 11
> bge0: ASIC BCM5701 B5 (0x0105), Ethernet address 00:08:02:28:12:73
> -------------------------------------- 8< --------------------------------------
> 
> Are PHY's needed for the card to function.

Yes.

Check that you enabled brgphy(4) in your kernel config file.

brgphy* at mii? phy ?

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.