Broadcom 5780

Pavol Čierny pavol at cierny.sk
Thu Aug 3 12:49:10 UTC 2006


Hi,

today I noticed that the STABLE bge driver was modified yesterday
(2006-08-02), and it looks like it supports also 5780, so the NICs
could work

Now I have trouble compiling kernel :-(

make: don't know how to make
/usr/src/sys/crypto/rijndael/rijndael-alg-fst.c. Stop
*** Error code 2




---
S pozdravom
Pavol Čierny



> On Aug 3, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Pavol Čierny wrote:

>> Hello,
>>
>> I wrote some weeks ago about broadcom 5780 that wasn't detected in
>> FreeBSD 6.1R
>>
>> After trying CURRENT, it was detected, but as Broadcom 5714 (i didn't
>> know it was 5714)....
>>
>> In the documentation of bge in FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x it says that the
>> driver already has support for 5714...
>>
>> What can I do that FreeBSD detects my NICs?
>> I don't want to use CURRENT on the server...
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> ---
>> Best regards
>> Pavol Čierny
>>
>>
>>> I don't maintain that driver so I don't know the answer to that.
>>
>>> Dave
>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Pavol Čierny [mailto:pavol at cierny.sk]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:43 AM
>>>> To: David (Controller AE) Christensen
>>>> Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>>>> Subject: Re: Broadcom 5780
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the info.
>>>>
>>>> Any chances it get's into STABLE in a near term?
>>>> Could I use the driver code and compile it in STABLE? :)
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> S pozdravom
>>>> Pavol Čierny
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Pavol,
>>>>
>>>>> The 5780 is functionally equivalent to the 5714.  Support for the
>>>>> 5780 was added to -CURRENT on June 29, 2006 in version 1.135 of
>>>>> if_bge.c.
>>>>
>>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>>>>>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Pavol Cierny
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:17 AM
>>>>>> To: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>>>>>> Subject: Broadcom 5780
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> has anyone information about implementing Broadcom 5780 to the bge
>>>>>> driver?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just bought a Fujitsu-Siemens RX220 server, and the NICs
>>>> don't work :(
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>> Pavol Čierny
>>>>>>
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> I had the same problem (same fujitsu server model), I think for now
> the only way is to use CURRENT (5714)

> best regards
> ovidiu



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