Re: Support for Broadcom 5906M fast ethernet chip

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 8, 2007 4:14 AM,  <elekktretterr@exemail.com.au> wrote:
> a new error with this patch. verbose boot dmesg attached.

OK, at least we have made some progress :)

Please revert the old bge patch (but keep the pci_pcib.c.diff), and
try following one:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/bcm5906.diff1

As the old one, it's against sys/

>
>
> > On Dec 7, 2007 7:05 PM,  <elekktretterr@exemail.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> attached.
> >
> > First please check whether your BIOS has some "PnP OS" options.  Try
> > turning it off.
> >
> > If above does not work, please try following patch:
> > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/pci_pcib.c.diff

Folks that run boxes with Intel bridges, please test the above patch.

> >
> > NOTE: Please back up your currently working kernel before testing above
> > patch!!

Above NOTE still applies :)

Best Regards,
sephe

> >>
> >>
> >> > On Dec 7, 2007 2:30 PM,  <elekktretterr@exemail.com.au> wrote:
> >> >> Hi Sephe,
> >> >> I finally got around to test your patch. Im getting this in dmesg.
> >> >>
> >> >> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5906M Fast Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0xc002> mem
> >> >> 0xf2000000-0xf200ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci4
> >> >> bge0: couldn't map memory
> >> >> device_probe_and_attach: bge0 attach returned 6
> >> >
> >> > Could you post the bootverbose dmesg?
> >> >
> >> > Best Regards,
> >> > sephe
> >> >
> >> > --
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
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