bge on the new Mac Mini

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:59:34PM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> On 11/20/12 03:52, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:30:04AM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Over the last month or so I've installed FreeBSD 9 (-stable) on several Mac
> >> Minis via the memstick image; they seem to be pretty good little boxes for
> >> things like offsite secondary nameservers, for example, and they're easily
> >> replaced in case of problems.
> >>
> >> However, the newest minis have slightly different hardware, and FreeBSD can't
> >> find the built-in NIC. pciconf -lv on the new mini shows it as
> >>
> >> none3 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x168614e4 chip=0x168614e4 rev=0x01
> > 
> > It seems this controller is BCM57766.
> > 
> >> hdr=0x00
> >>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> >>     class      = network
> >>     subclass   = ethernet
> >>
> >> The previous edition mini (that works) reports
> >>
> >> bge0 at pci0:2:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x16b414e4 chip=0x16b414e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
> >>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> >>     device     = 'NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe'
> >>     class      = network
> >>     subclass   = ethernet
> >>
> >> Is there a chance that adding the new card/chip info to the current driver would
> >> allow it to work? I'll be happy to test and report back. I'm afraid I'm not
> >> familiar enough with hardware at that level to figure out the patch myself.
> >>
> > 
> > Try attached patch and let me know whether the patch works or not.
> > If the patch works please share dmesg output(bge(4) and brgphy(4)
> > output only).
> > Note, the patch was generated against CURRENT.
> > 
> 
> I'm afraid it didn't help. I ended up grabbing if_bge.c and if_bgereg.h from

I guess you also need to copy brgphy.c from HEAD to
/usr/src/sys/dev/mii directory.

> HEAD using svnweb.freebsd.org. The patch installed cleanly and there were no
> errors during the build, but still no NIC.

Does it mean you're not seeing bge0 interface? Or you can't pass
any traffic via bge0?

> 
> Just to make sure you know, I've made no local modifications at all. This was a
> fresh install and I've touched nothing except for these 2 files.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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