Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

[Scott Long]

Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:28:37PM +0200, Conrad Burger wrote:
>  > On 31/10/06, Conrad Burger <conrad.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > >On 31/10/06, Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
>  > >> Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>  > >> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:06:28PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
>  > >> >  > Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>  > >> >  > >On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:17:00PM +0200, Conrad Burger wrote:
>  > >> >  > > > I am trying to get FreeBSD to work on a Dell 1955 blade. Looks 
>  > >like
>  > >> >  > > > the NICs on the blade are not supported by the BCE or BGE 
>  > >driver.
>  > >> >  > > >
>  > >> >  > > > On Linux the NICs are identified as "06:00.0 Ethernet 
>  > >controller:
>  > >> >  > > > Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet 
>  > >(rev 11)"
>  > >> >  > > >
>  > >> >  > > > >From "if_bce.c"
>  > >> >  > > > -------------------------
>  > >> >  > > > * The following controllers are not supported by this driver:
>  > >> >  > > > * (These are not "Production" versions of the controller.)
>  > >> >  > > > *   BCM5706C A0, A1
>  > >> >  > > > *   BCM5706S A0, A1, A2, A3
>  > >> >  > > > *   BCM5708C A0, B0
>  > >> >  > > > *  --> BCM5708S <-- A0, B0, B1
>  > >> >  > > >
>  > >> >  > > > Is there any reason why the chipset is not supported? Is there 
>  > >anyway
>  > >> >  > > > of getting the BCE or BGE driver to work with this chipset? 
>  > >Will it be
>  > >> >  > > > supported sometime in the near future?
>  > >> >  > > >
>  > >> >  > > > Any help would be much appreciated.
>  > >> >  > > >
>  > >> >  > >
>  > >> >  > >It seems that there is typo in bce(4) driver.
>  > >> >  > >Try attached patch.
>  > >> >  > >
>  > >> >  > >
>  > >> >  > >
>  > >> >  > 
>  > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > >> >  > >
>  > >> >  > >Index: if_bce.c
>  > >> >  > >===================================================================
>  > >> >  > >RCS file: /pool/ncvs/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c,v
>  > >> >  > >retrieving revision 1.17
>  > >> >  > >diff -u -r1.17 if_bce.c
>  > >> >  > >--- if_bce.c      21 Oct 2006 07:54:39 -0000      1.17
>  > >> >  > >+++ if_bce.c      31 Oct 2006 00:37:47 -0000
>  > >> >  > >@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@
>  > >> >  > >          "Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T" },
>  > >> >  > >
>  > >> >  > >  /* BCM5708S controllers and OEM boards. */
>  > >> >  > >- { BRCM_VENDORID, BRCM_DEVICEID_BCM5708,  PCI_ANY_ID,  PCI_ANY_ID,
>  > >> >  > >-         "Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T" },
>  > >> >  > >+ { BRCM_VENDORID, BRCM_DEVICEID_BCM5708S,  PCI_ANY_ID,  
>  > >PCI_ANY_ID,
>  > >> >  > >+         "Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708S 1000Base-T" },
>  > >> >  > >  { 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL }
>  > >> >  > > };
>  > >> >  > >
>  > >> >  > >
>  > >> >  > >
>  > >> >  > 
>  > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > >> >  >
>  > >> >  > Why remove a valid entry?
>  > >> >  >
>  > >> >
>  > >> > I didn't remove it. You can see duplicated BRCM_DEVICEID_BCM5708s in
>  > >> > bce_devs.
>  > >> >
>  > >> >  > Scott
>  > >> >
>  > >>
>  > >> Oops, you're right.  I've been accidentally ignoring this anyways, I'll
>  > >> take care of it.  Thanks!
>  > >>
>  > >> Scott
>  > >>
>  > >
>  > >Thanks the kernel now recognizes the network interface.
>  > >
>  > >But it fails to "attach" the driver to the interface and gives the
>  > >following error.
>  > >"bce0 if_bce.c(531) SerDes controllers are not supported!"
>  > >
>  > >What now .... is there anything else I can try?
>  > >
>  > >Regards
>  > >Conrad
>  > >
>  > 
>  > In if_bce.c  I found the following comment "/* DRC - ToDo: Add SerDes
>  > support. */".
>  > 
>  > Looks like the SerDes code for the BCE driver still needs to be developed :(
>  > 
>  > If someone could finish the SerDes code for the driver, I will spend
>  > as much time as needed to test each code change that is attempted to
>  > get the SerDes stuff working :)
>  > 
>  > If needs be I will hook a console up to the system to make it
>  > accessible over the internet.
>  > 
> 
> Because I don't the hardware and datasheet for the chip I can't make
> any further changes for you. Sorry. But you can ask the driver author
> for a plan for SERDES transceiver support. CCed to David Christensen,
> the author of the driver.
> 

I might try to take a look at this.  I wonder if the Linux driver 
already has support.

Scott