Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

[Claus Guttesen]

> > > 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.
> >
> > Any development here? We have just started purchasing 1955 Blades and would
> > very much like to install FreeBSD on them :)
>
> Support for them is in CURRENT and 6.2, although the comment saying
> that they're _not_ supported is still there as well ;)

No, unfortunately not. The controller is recognized but then bails out
with "SerDes controller not supported". Have tried (many times :-/ ).

regards
Claus