Broadcom on HP Proliant ML150G6 not detected by 8.0RC1 AMD64

[Johan Hendriks]

>> Hello all
>>  I just installed FreeBSD 8.0RC1 AMD64 on my new HP Proliant ML150 G6
>> server.
>> It fails to detect the Broadcom network interface.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Pciconf -lv gives me the following.
>> 
>> none3 at pci0:4:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x705d10c
chip=0x165b14e4
>> rev=0x10
>> hdr=0x00
>> 
>> vendor              = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>> class                = network
>> 
>> Subclass          = Ethernet
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Is there something I can do, other than install an other network
card?

>I think you can just patch the bge(4) driver to add support for your
>adapter.  
>It looks like a BCM5723 from the PCI ID.  Support for it was just added
in 
>9.0 as part of change 197832, but I suspect it might not need all the
other
>patches from that change.  Try this diff:

>Index: if_bgereg.h
>===================================================================
>--- if_bgereg.h	(revision 197831)
>+++ if_bgereg.h	(revision 197832)
>@@ -2101,6 +2123,7 @@
> #define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5720		0x1658
> #define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5721		0x1659
> #define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5722		0x165A
>+#define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5723		0x165B
> #define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750		0x1676
> #define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750M		0x167C
> #define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5751		0x1677
>Index: if_bge.c
>===================================================================
>--- if_bge.c	(revision 197831)
>+++ if_bge.c	(revision 197832)
>@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5720 },
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5721 },
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5722 },
>+	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5723 },
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750 },
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750M },
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5751 },

Like I said in my first answer, the device is detected with these lines.
Only if I enable the device it can not boot.
If I boot with the inserted em0 interface and the change in the rc.conf
file the em0 into bge0 and do a /etc/netstart, the systems hangs, only a
power cycle can reclaim the server.


I have installed FreeBSD 9.0Current on the machine and here it works
fine

I saw a commit from Bjoern A. Zeeb which describe the hang, but do not
know if this can be reverted back to 8.x before the release.

svn commit: r198049 - head/sys/dev/bge   Bjoern A. Zeeb

regards, and thank you for your time.
cc'ed  stas@ and bz@ ( hope they do not mind, if so I am sorry)

Johan Hendriks



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