Baconizer
June 25th, 2009, 10:27
Greetings! I am attempting to set up FreeBSD on my Acer Aspire 4720z. I have downloaded and used the i386 installation DVD.
The install went fine. I can run it fine. Except for connecting to the networking.
I have a Broadcom NetLink BCM5787M (should use the if_bge/bge driver.)
During the postinstall setup, it found fwe0, fwip0, sl0, and ppp0, but not bge0.
I've tried to configure it somewhat myself, but with no success. I have changed /etc/rc.conf to include:
ifconfig_bge0="DHCP"
I've also tried
ifconfig_if_bge0="DHCP"
but to no avail.
I have also added to /boot/loader.conf:
if_bge_load="YES"
Based off of a thread (http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12697&p=771900) in the PC-BSD forums.
I have tried loading the if_bge driver using kldload, but I get the message:
kldlod: can't load if_bge: File exists
From dmesg:
bge0: <Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0xb002> irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci5
bge0: 0x10000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff).
bge0: couldn't map memory
device_attach: bge0 attach return 6
:(
Every Linux distro I've tried (Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Arch, etc.) as well as OpenSolaris as automagically configured it. PC-BSD doesn't detect bge0 either.
But since OpenSolaris has support for it, I'd have a hard time believing FreeBSD doesn't.
The install went fine. I can run it fine. Except for connecting to the networking.
I have a Broadcom NetLink BCM5787M (should use the if_bge/bge driver.)
During the postinstall setup, it found fwe0, fwip0, sl0, and ppp0, but not bge0.
I've tried to configure it somewhat myself, but with no success. I have changed /etc/rc.conf to include:
ifconfig_bge0="DHCP"
I've also tried
ifconfig_if_bge0="DHCP"
but to no avail.
I have also added to /boot/loader.conf:
if_bge_load="YES"
Based off of a thread (http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12697&p=771900) in the PC-BSD forums.
I have tried loading the if_bge driver using kldload, but I get the message:
kldlod: can't load if_bge: File exists
From dmesg:
bge0: <Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0xb002> irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci5
bge0: 0x10000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff).
bge0: couldn't map memory
device_attach: bge0 attach return 6
:(
Every Linux distro I've tried (Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Arch, etc.) as well as OpenSolaris as automagically configured it. PC-BSD doesn't detect bge0 either.
But since OpenSolaris has support for it, I'd have a hard time believing FreeBSD doesn't.