From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 02:55:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B08F516A47B for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:55:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from alnrmhc14.comcast.net (alnrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.225.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B4E43D45 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:55:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from gimpy (c-24-118-173-219.hsd1.mn.comcast.net[24.118.173.219]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20060921025550b1400j85fse>; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:55:50 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:54:23 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <4511AA4A.2070601@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4511AA4A.2070601@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609202154.23682.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Subject: Re: bge/bce support for another Dell card X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:55:51 -0000 On Wednesday 20 September 2006 20:53, Eric Anderson wrote: > Ok, I've seen a lot of bge/bce commits, messages, etc, so I may > have missed something - please point me to a commit or message if I > did.. > > We've got a brand new Dell Precision 390 (Core 2 Duo) which has a > Broadcom NIC in it, Probably much like the one in the PowerEdge > 1950, but cheaper and less reliable (if you can imagine that). > It's doesn't seem to be supported yet on the 6-STABLE branch, and > so I'm wondering if we would have better luck with -CURRENT, or if > the PCI ID's just need to be mapped out, etc. > > Here's the pciconf output for that card: > > none2@pci4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01de1028 chip=0x167a14e4 > rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > > I see a line in the bge driver (sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h), like: > > #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5754 0x167A > > But I believe it's a BCM5787, and when the bge driver loads, the > system panics because of (excude my vagueness here - I'll get the > details tomorrow) some kind of NMI memory checksum failure, but the > device is fine, tests ok, and runs perfectly under other OS'es. > > Is that device supposed to be supported yet on -STABLE or -CURRENT? > > Thanks! > Eric This may not help you much but the driver in 6.x-STABLE doesn't support the PE1950 either. I had to download a newer version of the driver from the author of the driver and install in manually. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel