Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

[Scott Long]

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