From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 15:29:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB83B16A40F for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:29:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B5543CB0 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:27:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com [192.168.2.61]) (SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:29:34 -0500 id 00056413.4582BF5E.0000C149 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:29:29 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: "Claus Guttesen" Message-Id: <20061215102929.eef32522.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20061215125509.GK2761@freenix.no> <20061215085216.b7c8a814.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@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: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:29:36 -0000 In response to "Claus Guttesen" : > > > > I am trying to get FreeBSD to work on a Dell 1955 blade. Looks like > > > > the NICs on the blade are not supported by the BCE or BGE driver. > > > > > > > > On Linux the NICs are identified as "06:00.0 Ethernet controller: > > > > Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11)" > > > > > > > > >From "if_bce.c" > > > > ------------------------- > > > > * The following controllers are not supported by this driver: > > > > * (These are not "Production" versions of the controller.) > > > > * BCM5706C A0, A1 > > > > * BCM5706S A0, A1, A2, A3 > > > > * BCM5708C A0, B0 > > > > * --> BCM5708S <-- A0, B0, B1 > > > > > > > > Is there any reason why the chipset is not supported? Is there anyway > > > > of getting the BCE or BGE driver to work with this chipset? Will it be > > > > supported sometime in the near future? > > > > > > > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > > > > > Any development here? We have just started purchasing 1955 Blades and would > > > very much like to install FreeBSD on them :) > > > > Support for them is in CURRENT and 6.2, although the comment saying > > that they're _not_ supported is still there as well ;) > > No, unfortunately not. The controller is recognized but then bails out > with "SerDes controller not supported". Have tried (many times :-/ ). Ah ... that part wasn't clear. Unfortunately, I don't have any further information on this. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.