two problems with broadcom NICs

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Friday, March 02, 2007 09:47:47 +0100 Alessandro de Manzano 
<ale at unixmania.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've got a bunch of new Dell PowerEdge SC440 machines, but I've some
> problems running FreeBSD on them.
>
> OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (but also -stable of yesterday), SMP (but tried
> also GENERIC monoprocessor), both i386 and amd64, always same results.
>
> Situation: Two Broadcom NICs, one on the motherboard and one on
> PCI-express bus, here is a snippet of pciconf -lv (as you can see I had
> to add a 3COM PCI card in order to have connectivity)
>
>
> bge0 at pci3:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x165914e4 chip=0x165914e4 rev=0x21
> hdr=0x00     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>     device     = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> none1 at pci4:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x01df1028 chip=0x167a14e4 rev=0x02
> hdr=0x00     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> xl0 at pci5:2:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x100010b7 chip=0x920010b7 rev=0x74
> hdr=0x00     vendor     = '3COM Corp, Networking Division'
>     device     = '3C905C-TX Fast EtherLink for PC Management NIC'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
Shouldn't you be using the bce driver?  This is an i386 machine, but amd64 
should work the same (you're using the same chipset):

bce0 at pci9:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x01b31028 chip=0x164c14e4 rev=0x11 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet

bce1 at pci5:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x01b31028 chip=0x164c14e4 rev=0x11 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet

This is a Dell 1950, from dmesg.boot:

bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem 
0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9
bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz

bce1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem 
0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci5
bce1: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/