Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:06:28PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
 > 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?
 > 

I didn't remove it. You can see duplicated BRCM_DEVICEID_BCM5708s in
bce_devs.

 > Scott

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon