Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

[Conrad Burger]

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If you have an alpha or beta version of the bce driver that supports serdes,
please let me know and I'll start testing right away!

Regards 
Conrad 


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org]
On Behalf Of Morten A. Middelthon
Sent: 16 January 2007 08:56 AM
To: David Christensen
Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org; Roar Pettersen
Subject: Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:16:16AM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> > Hello Dave !
> > 
> > >Wed Nov 1 18:54:19 UTC 2006
> > >
> > >Yes, the Linux bnx2 driver does support SerDes.  I don't have the
> > >bandwidth to tackle this feature until after the first of the year,
> > >though a few other people have also considered looking into adding
> > >the support.
> > 
> > 
> > Any news or status report regarding support for this new 
> > network interface 
> > in FreeBSD ?
> 
> I've copied Doug White who is working to add SerDes support to bce.

I'm _really_ looking forward to getting SerDes support in the bce-driver :)

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Morten A. Middelthon

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