Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)
Conrad Burger
conrad.burger at mxit.com
Tue Jan 16 19:20:06 UTC 2007
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If you have an alpha or beta version of the bce driver that supports serdes,
please let me know and I'll start testing right away!
Regards
Conrad
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org]
On Behalf Of Morten A. Middelthon
Sent: 16 January 2007 08:56 AM
To: David Christensen
Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org; Roar Pettersen
Subject: Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:16:16AM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> > Hello Dave !
> >
> > >Wed Nov 1 18:54:19 UTC 2006
> > >
> > >Yes, the Linux bnx2 driver does support SerDes. I don't have the
> > >bandwidth to tackle this feature until after the first of the year,
> > >though a few other people have also considered looking into adding
> > >the support.
> >
> >
> > Any news or status report regarding support for this new
> > network interface
> > in FreeBSD ?
>
> I've copied Doug White who is working to add SerDes support to bce.
I'm _really_ looking forward to getting SerDes support in the bce-driver :)
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Morten A. Middelthon
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