Problems with NIC Broadcom BCM5787

alcarvalho

Hi there,

I've searched the forum and also tried in Google for any solution for this, but couldn'd find any.

I have a Dell Optiplex 740, with an AMD64 Athlon which has this integrated NIC Broadcom BCM5787 as stated when I execute a dmesg command.

The system recognizes the NIC, it has an interface called bge0, it detects carrier when I plug or unplug the cable, it assigns an IP, but I cannot make it communicate with anything. No ping, no tcp connection, nothing…

I have tried the same configuration using the Realtek as LAN and everything is fine. I'm able to access the webConfigurator, I'm able to ping machines from LAN etc.

Also I have tried it with the pfSense version 1.2.3 and 2.0 RC1. Both will have the same behavior.

Any thoughts?

Thank you,
-andre

stephenw10

Here is a post relating to the problem you are seeing:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=22300
The solution appears to be, add the following to /boot/loader.conf


hw.pci.enable_msi="0"

Then reboot.

If that works then create a file /boot/loader.conf.local and put it there instead since that file will be copied across when/if you update pfSense.

Steve

alcarvalho

Steve,

thank you very much. I've been struggling with this for days. I was about to give up on pfSense.

The solution worked like a charm. :)

All the best,
-andre