Solved ThinkPad X41 Networking

Just picked up my latest ThinkPad - a 14yr!! old X41.

Not sure how to get networking working on this - it uses a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM 5751M NIC. Should I expect FreeBSD to support this out of the box or should I go hunting around for a driver? ifconfig does not identify an em0 interface.
 
According to this cvs log it's supported by if_bge driver.
From bge(4):
bge – Broadcom BCM57xx/BCM590x Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver

P.S. What does it have to do with em0?..


All the ThinkPads I've used in the past had an em0... It turns out this one had a bge0 which I hadn't noticed initially and didn't realise it was the interface name for the Broadcom NIC. I had assumed that all ThinkPads used Intel NICs.
 
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