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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