Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Tue Oct 31 03:06:38 UTC 2006


Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Index: if_bce.c
> ===================================================================
> 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 }
>  };
>  
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Why remove a valid entry?

Scott


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