Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:18:03 +0200 From: "Conrad Burger" <conrad.burger@gmail.com> To: "David Christensen" <davidch@broadcom.com> Cc: pyunyh@gmail.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, davidch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S) Message-ID: <d0c4d1610611011118j396bac88wa55fa2f2d9ae59bb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD903023623C5@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> References: <45480479.6090100@samsco.org> <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD903023623C5@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com>
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On 01/11/06, David Christensen <davidch@broadcom.com> 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
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