Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

[Conrad Burger]

On 31/10/06, Conrad Burger <conrad.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31/10/06, Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
> > Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > > 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
> > >
> >
> > Oops, you're right.  I've been accidentally ignoring this anyways, I'll
> > take care of it.  Thanks!
> >
> > Scott
> >
>
> Thanks the kernel now recognizes the network interface.
>
> But it fails to "attach" the driver to the interface and gives the
> following error.
> "bce0 if_bce.c(531) SerDes controllers are not supported!"
>
> What now .... is there anything else I can try?
>
> Regards
> Conrad
>

In if_bce.c  I found the following comment "/* DRC - ToDo: Add SerDes
support. */".

Looks like the SerDes code for the BCE driver still needs to be developed :(

If someone could finish the SerDes code for the driver, I will spend
as much time as needed to test each code change that is attempted to
get the SerDes stuff working :)

If needs be I will hook a console up to the system to make it
accessible over the internet.

Regards
Conrad