From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 1 18:54:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023AE16A412; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:54:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidch@broadcom.com) Received: from mms2.broadcom.com (mms2.broadcom.com [216.31.210.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D7043D45; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:54:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davidch@broadcom.com) Received: from 10.10.64.154 by mms2.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom SMTP Relay (Email Firewall v6.2.2)); Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:54:07 -0800 X-Server-Uuid: 79DB55DB-3CB4-423E-BEDB-D0F268247E63 Received: by mail-irva-10.broadcom.com (Postfix, from userid 47) id 1D32A2AF; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:54:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-irva-8.broadcom.com (mail-irva-8 [10.10.64.221]) by mail-irva-10.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5E62AE; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:54:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-irva-12.broadcom.com (mail-irva-12.broadcom.com [10.10.64.146]) by mail-irva-8.broadcom.com (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id EJR86662; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:54:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com (nt-irva-0750 [10.8.194.64]) by mail-irva-12.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A091769CA3; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:54:01 -0800 (PST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:54:00 -0800 Message-ID: <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD903023623C5@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <45480479.6090100@samsco.org> Thread-Topic: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S) thread-index: Acb9XJLLxYFW2bjdRbibjzKvH+ScWAAijkgA From: "David Christensen" To: "Scott Long" , pyunyh@gmail.com X-WSS-ID: 695632C50SG5417-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, davidch@freebsd.org, Conrad Burger Subject: RE: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:54:19 -0000 > > > >> Oops, you're right. I've been accidentally ignoring=20 > this anyways, I'll > > > >> take care of it. Thanks! > > > >> > > > >> Scott > > > >> > > > > > > > >Thanks the kernel now recognizes the network interface. > > > > > > > >But it fails to "attach" the driver to the interface=20 > and gives the > > > >following error. > > > >"bce0 if_bce.c(531) SerDes controllers are not supported!" > > > > > > > >What now .... is there anything else I can try? > > > > > > > >Regards > > > >Conrad > > > > > > >=20 > > > In if_bce.c I found the following comment "/* DRC -=20 > ToDo: Add SerDes > > > support. */". > > >=20 > > > Looks like the SerDes code for the BCE driver still=20 > needs to be developed :( > > >=20 > > > If someone could finish the SerDes code for the driver,=20 > I will spend > > > as much time as needed to test each code change that is=20 > attempted to > > > get the SerDes stuff working :) > > >=20 > > > If needs be I will hook a console up to the system to make it > > > accessible over the internet. > > >=20 > >=20 > > Because I don't the hardware and datasheet for the chip I can't make > > any further changes for you. Sorry. But you can ask the=20 > driver author > > for a plan for SERDES transceiver support. CCed to David=20 > Christensen, > > the author of the driver. > >=20 >=20 > I might try to take a look at this. I wonder if the Linux driver=20 > already has support. >=20 > Scott >=20 Yes, the Linux bnx2 driver does support SerDes. I don't have the bandwidth to tackle this feature until after the first of the year, though a few other people have also considered looking into adding the support. Dave