Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:09:08 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bge/bce support for another Dell card Message-ID: <45120254.3050907@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200609202154.23682.josh@tcbug.org> References: <4511AA4A.2070601@centtech.com> <200609202154.23682.josh@tcbug.org>
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On 09/20/06 16:54, Josh Paetzel wrote: > 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 I had to download a newer version of the 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. > Hmm.. Can you point me to that please? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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