Subject: Re: support for Broadcom GigE NIC
To: Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/05/2002 15:46:03
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:27:20PM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I was trying to evaluate some Nexcom Blades servers that have 2 Broadcom

What machine is it ?

> 10/100/1000 NIC's on them.  Looking through src via CVS I see that support
> for the Broadcoms has been added, however not in 1.5.x or 1.6.  I don't
> have any other NetBSD systems available, so what's my best route to get a
> system up and running for these systems.
> 
> Oh, the other thing is, I was also getting pciide errors towards the end
> of the kernel boot.  How can I disable the pciide device at boot?

For both the nic, and disbling pciide, you need to build a new kernel.
Do you have a linux machine around ?
Maybe you can try to build the cross-compile too (build.sh -t) on it and
compile a kernel using theses.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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