From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 1 19:18:30 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 D0B8A16A4D8 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 19:18:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrad.burger@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D1143D98 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 19:18:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrad.burger@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1925027wxd for ; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:18:03 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZWIx4iVdxJxEdf2BGDEX9DM8MnvsxD/X9aRwguBE55W9NKEHulHreF/Ww1ufWgWvEuUUCdtgRUl+Cbhad/63DOB48iTh+TlFuCuvEzOpZt4WJxuXac7dFz/maTJ9yxgJ3tfPEr9a8Lydjc57LzKCwV9bunorD8vp2uktJJrKPYY= Received: by 10.90.63.16 with SMTP id l16mr3582958aga; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:18:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.114.6 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:18:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:18:03 +0200 From: "Conrad Burger" To: "David Christensen" In-Reply-To: <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD903023623C5@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45480479.6090100@samsco.org> <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD903023623C5@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> Cc: pyunyh@gmail.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, davidch@freebsd.org 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 19:18:30 -0000 On 01/11/06, David Christensen wrote: > > > > >> Oops, you're right. I've been accidentally ignoring > > 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 > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > In if_bce.c I found the following comment "/* DRC - > > ToDo: Add SerDes > > > > support. */". > > > > > > > > Looks like the SerDes code for the BCE driver still > > needs to be developed :( > > > > > > > > If someone could finish the SerDes code for the driver, > > I will spend > > > > as much time as needed to test each code change that is > > attempted to > > > > get the SerDes stuff working :) > > > > > > > > If needs be I will hook a console up to the system to make it > > > > accessible over the internet. > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > driver author > > > for a plan for SERDES transceiver support. CCed to David > > Christensen, > > > the author of the driver. > > > > > > > I might try to take a look at this. I wonder if the Linux driver > > already has support. > > > > Scott > > > > 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 > > How hard would it be to use the linux driver code base to add tthe SerDes support to the FreeBSD driver? I am not a C programmer, but I can copy and paste ;) Cheers Conrad