Broadcom on HP Proliant ML150G6 not detected by 8.0RC1 AMD64
Johan Hendriks
Johan at double-l.nl
Fri Oct 23 15:17:38 UTC 2009
On Thursday 22 October 2009 11:07:23 am Johan Hendriks wrote:
>> Hello all
>> I just installed FreeBSD 8.0RC1 AMD64 on my new HP Proliant ML150 G6
>> server.
>> It fails to detect the Broadcom network interface.
>>
>>
>>
>> Pciconf -lv gives me the following.
>>
>> none3 at pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x705d10c
chip=0x165b14e4
>> rev=0x10
>> hdr=0x00
>>
>> vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>> class = network
>>
>> Subclass = Ethernet
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there something I can do, other than install an other network
card?
>I think you can just patch the bge(4) driver to add support for your
>adapter.
>It looks like a BCM5723 from the PCI ID. Support for it was just added
in
>9.0 as part of change 197832, but I suspect it might not need all the
other
>patches from that change. Try this diff:
>Index: if_bgereg.h
>===================================================================
>--- if_bgereg.h (revision 197831)
>+++ if_bgereg.h (revision 197832)
>@@ -2101,6 +2123,7 @@
> #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5720 0x1658
> #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5721 0x1659
> #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5722 0x165A
>+#define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5723 0x165B
> #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750 0x1676
> #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750M 0x167C
> #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5751 0x1677
>Index: if_bge.c
>===================================================================
>--- if_bge.c (revision 197831)
>+++ if_bge.c (revision 197832)
>@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@
> { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5720 },
> { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5721 },
> { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5722 },
>+ { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5723 },
> { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750 },
> { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750M },
> { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5751 },
Ok done that, and the card is found, only the server is not very stable
right now.
It does not continue the boot.
It stops at setting the hostname
Setting hostname: server01.mydomain.local
And it stays there.
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