Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:43:24 +0100 From: "Dermot Williams" <dermot.williams@irishbroadband.ie> To: "Eric Anderson" <anderson@centtech.com>, "Josh Paetzel" <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: bge/bce support for another Dell card Message-ID: <7E5085C46B7D9448BE320EAACD6C32170D4A34@dubms03.irishbroadband.ie> References: <4511AA4A.2070601@centtech.com> <200609202154.23682.josh@tcbug.org> <45120254.3050907@centtech.com>
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I second that request. I've been having a mare of a time with a 1950 and = the BCE drivers. I get hardware lockups on the NICs that only seem to be = triggered by NFS - or, rather, NFS triggers them reliably. I've upgrade = the machines to -CURRENT (which iterates the if_bce.c file from version = 1.2.2.x to 1.8) and the problem is still there. I'd be interested in = getting hold of these updated drivers that you have so that I can see = whether or not my problem is fixed. =20 Cheers, =20 Dermot Williams ________________________________ From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org on behalf of Eric Anderson Sent: Thu 21/09/2006 04:09 To: Josh Paetzel Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bge/bce support for another Dell card 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=3D0x020000 card=3D0x01de1028 chip=3D0x167a14e4 >> rev=3D0x02 hdr=3D0x00 >> vendor =3D 'Broadcom Corporation' >> class =3D network >> subclass =3D 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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