Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 08:03:59 -0700 From: John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net> To: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: supporting broadcom gig BCM5751 Message-ID: <20040918150359.GA97455@memnoch.jk.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <20040917212332.GH18526@pir.net> References: <20040917175831.GB18526@pir.net> <20040917195719.GA81806@memnoch.jk.homeunix.net> <20040917212332.GH18526@pir.net>
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 05:23:32PM -0400, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net> probably said: > > I have a few Dell 2650s at work and I had to load FreeBSD 5.2.1 (vs. > > 4.x-STABLE, which at the time was 4.9). They've all been up to long so I > > don't have any handy dmesg output to compare to yours. > > > > pciconf gives me this, which may be of some help: > > > > bge0@pci3:6:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01211028 chip=0x16a714e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > > device = 'BCM5703X NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet' > > class = network > > subclass = ethernet > > > > The "chip" field is close to yours, but not an exact match. > > I have other machines with Broadcom gig ether cards, including another > Dell, but it's this exact chipset I'm having trouble with not anything > that is close. Daniel O'Connor suggested I look in /var/run/dmesg.boot (I was looking in /var/log/dmesg.*). I looked on my 2nd 2650 box which apparently has a slightly different chipset in it, and it should be older than the 1st. The device as identified there is a bit different: bge0: <Broadcom BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x105> mem 0xfcf10000-0xfcf1ffff irq 28 at device 6.0 on pci3 bge0: Ethernet address: 00:06:5b:f0:7d:c3 miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0 bge0@pci3:6:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01211028 chip=0x164514e4 rev=0x15 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM5701 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet' class = network subclass = ethernet Still, not your exact chipset (presumably 0x14e4 is vendor and 0x1677 is version, the chip= field has them swapped, and my two machines straddle your chip. I have another 5.3-BETA4 box with a BCM5788 (chip=0x169c14e4) but that isn't the right chip either, and it isn't a Dell. Doesn't really help you, but if I were you I would try booting up under 5.2.1 (if only via CD-ROM), seeing what it reports about the chipset and if it seems to be supported, and then chasing driver-code differences.
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