Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 00:37:50 UTC 2006


On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:17:00PM +0200, Conrad Burger wrote:
 > 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.
 > 

It seems that there is typo in bce(4) driver.
Try attached patch.

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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Index: if_bce.c
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RCS file: /pool/ncvs/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -r1.17 if_bce.c
--- if_bce.c	21 Oct 2006 07:54:39 -0000	1.17
+++ if_bce.c	31 Oct 2006 00:37:47 -0000
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@
 		"Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T" },
 
 	/* BCM5708S controllers and OEM boards. */
-	{ BRCM_VENDORID, BRCM_DEVICEID_BCM5708,  PCI_ANY_ID,  PCI_ANY_ID,
-		"Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T" },
+	{ BRCM_VENDORID, BRCM_DEVICEID_BCM5708S,  PCI_ANY_ID,  PCI_ANY_ID,
+		"Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708S 1000Base-T" },
 	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL }
 };
 


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