From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 12:55:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D14416A415 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:55:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from morten@atreides.freenix.no) Received: from freenix.no (atreides.freenix.no [212.33.142.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D008443C9F for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:53:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from morten@atreides.freenix.no) Received: from atreides.freenix.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freenix.no (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBFCt93v091655; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:55:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from morten@atreides.freenix.no) Received: (from morten@localhost) by atreides.freenix.no (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id kBFCt9um091654; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:55:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from morten) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:55:09 +0100 From: "Morten A. Middelthon" To: Conrad Burger Message-ID: <20061215125509.GK2761@freenix.no> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yiup30KVCQiHUZFC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://freenix.no/~morten/pgp.txt X-PGP-Key-FingerPrint: D48B 5C4E 1590 7DE6 08A0 6539 BECC F62E 829F DF6A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-p1 X-Warning: So cunning you could brush your teeth with it. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:55:15 -0000 --yiup30KVCQiHUZFC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > On Linux the NICs are identified as "06:00.0 Ethernet controller: > Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11)" >=20 > >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 >=20 > 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? >=20 > Any help would be much appreciated. Any development here? We have just started purchasing 1955 Blades and would very much like to install FreeBSD on them :) with regards, --=20 Morten A. Middelthon To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy. --yiup30KVCQiHUZFC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFgpstvsz2LoKf32oRAo7NAKCDMvJDJpTKR0r+luGrmG/Lbv3bHQCaAqPi AmZYuvUoxBOUO162vzLhFZM= =ZjrF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yiup30KVCQiHUZFC--