bge/bce support for another Dell card

[Eric Anderson]

On 09/20/06 16:54, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 September 2006 20:53, Eric Anderson wrote:
>> Ok, I've seen a lot of bge/bce commits, messages, etc, so I may
>> have missed something - please point me to a commit or message if I
>> did..
>>
>> We've got a brand new Dell Precision 390 (Core 2 Duo) which has a
>> Broadcom NIC in it, Probably much like the one in the PowerEdge
>> 1950, but cheaper and less reliable (if you can imagine that). 
>> It's doesn't seem to be supported yet on the 6-STABLE branch, and
>> so I'm wondering if we would have better luck with -CURRENT, or if
>> the PCI ID's just need to be mapped out, etc.
>>
>> Here's the pciconf output for that card:
>>
>> none2 at pci4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01de1028 chip=0x167a14e4
>> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>>      vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>      class    = network
>>      subclass = ethernet
>>
>>
>> I see a line in the bge driver (sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h), like:
>>
>> #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5754           0x167A
>>
>> But I believe it's a BCM5787, and when the bge driver loads, the
>> system panics because of (excude my vagueness here - I'll get the
>> details tomorrow) some kind of NMI memory checksum failure, but the
>> device is fine, tests ok, and runs perfectly under other OS'es.
>>
>> Is that device supposed to be supported yet on -STABLE or -CURRENT?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Eric
> 
> This may not help you much but the driver in 6.x-STABLE doesn't 
> support the PE1950 either.  I had to download a newer version of the 
> driver from the author of the driver and install in manually.
> 


Hmm.. Can you point me to that please?

Eric



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