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Date:      Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:17:33 +0200
From:      "Johan Hendriks" <Johan@double-l.nl>
To:        "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Broadcom on HP Proliant ML150G6 not detected by 8.0RC1 AMD64
Message-ID:  <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCBA570DA@w2003s01.double-l.local>
References:  <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCBA570C7@w2003s01.double-l.local> <200910230812.31166.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Thursday 22 October 2009 11:07:23 am Johan Hendriks wrote:
>> Hello all
>>  I just installed FreeBSD 8.0RC1 AMD64 on my new HP Proliant ML150 G6
>> server.
>> It fails to detect the Broadcom network interface.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Pciconf -lv gives me the following.
>> 
>> none3@pci0:4:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x705d10c
chip=0x165b14e4
>> rev=0x10
>> hdr=0x00
>> 
>> vendor              = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>> class                = network
>> 
>> Subclass          = Ethernet
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Is there something I can do, other than install an other network
card?

>I think you can just patch the bge(4) driver to add support for your
>adapter.  
>It looks like a BCM5723 from the PCI ID.  Support for it was just added
in 
>9.0 as part of change 197832, but I suspect it might not need all the
other
>patches from that change.  Try this diff:

>Index: if_bgereg.h
>===================================================================
>--- if_bgereg.h	(revision 197831)
>+++ if_bgereg.h	(revision 197832)
>@@ -2101,6 +2123,7 @@
> #define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5720		0x1658
> #define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5721		0x1659
> #define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5722		0x165A
>+#define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5723		0x165B
> #define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750		0x1676
> #define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750M		0x167C
> #define	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5751		0x1677
>Index: if_bge.c
>===================================================================
>--- if_bge.c	(revision 197831)
>+++ if_bge.c	(revision 197832)
>@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5720 },
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5721 },
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5722 },
>+	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5723 },
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750 },
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750M },
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID,	BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5751 },


Ok done that, and the card is found, only the server is not very stable
right now.
It does not continue the boot.
It stops at setting the hostname 

Setting hostname:  server01.mydomain.local

And it stays there.




-- 
John Baldwin

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