bce: Device not configured

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:58:33PM +0200, Sami Halabi wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having this card on my IBM X3550, FBSD8.1-R-p8:
> # pciconf -lv
> bce0 at pci0:11:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x03a91014 chip=0x163914e4
> rev=0x20 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>     device     = 'NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5709)'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> bce1 at pci0:11:0:1:       class=0x020000 card=0x03a91014 chip=0x163914e4
> rev=0x20 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>     device     = 'NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5709)'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> 
> # lspci
> 0b:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
> 0b:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
> 
> the box is running for about 200 days so i don't have dmesg output.
> 
> do i need to patch?
> 

I think you don't need the patch unless you're suffering from link
establishment issue. The patch was made to support remote PHY
capability of Broadcom controller which is commonly found on Dell
blade systems.