Re: Latitude D800
Mike Hunter <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Nov 25, "Jamie Bowden" wrote: > > I just got upgraded to a Latitude D800, and have installed FreeBSD 5.1-R > on it. The onboard NIC is a Broadcom 570x based adapter but it is > currently unrecognized by the bge driver. > > I was planning on just adding the PCI ID to the driver and recompiling the > kernel, but before I did this, I just wanted to know if anyone else has > done this and if they were successful. > > If no one else has done this yet, and I do this and it works, where's the > best place to submit the PCI ID so it gets included into the driver for > future generations? I went down this same road about 2 months ago. I moved to 5.1-current (October 3), whose bge driver supports the onboard nic out of the box. It works great. Mike PS FYI There's also a FreeBSD Dell D800 Support group: http://ox.eicat.ca/mailman/listinfo/dell-d800 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"