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Old 2nd June 2009
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Originally Posted by syrushcw View Post
I got a new laptop with a Broadcom NIC that I can't get to work. I've never had to edit driver files in BSD so IDK what to do. I know I have to edit the bge(4) file with the following patch.
That is an old patch. If you are running FreeBSD 7.2, then that code is already in there. Tell us what the model number of the chipset is and maybe we can help.

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Originally Posted by syrushcw View Post
I grep the bge file but all I find is one manpage
/usr/share/man/man4/if_bge.4.gzp
Do you have the kernel sources installed? That file should be in /usr/src/sys/dev/bge
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