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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:46:19 +0200
From:      "Conrad Burger" <conrad.burger@mxit.com>
To:        "Conrad Burger" <conrad.burger@mxit.com>, "Morten A. Middelthon" <morten@freenix.no>, "David Christensen" <davidch@broadcom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Roar Pettersen <roar.pettersen@uib.no>
Subject:   RE: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)
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Any progress on the BCE serdes driver?

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org =
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On Behalf Of Conrad Burger
Sent: 16 January 2007 08:53 PM
To: Morten A. Middelthon; David Christensen
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Roar Pettersen
Subject: RE: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

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If you have an alpha or beta version of the bce driver that supports =
serdes,
please let me know and I'll start testing right away!

Regards=20
Conrad=20


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org =
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On Behalf Of Morten A. Middelthon
Sent: 16 January 2007 08:56 AM
To: David Christensen
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Roar Pettersen
Subject: Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:16:16AM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> > Hello Dave !
> >=20
> > >Wed Nov 1 18:54:19 UTC 2006
> > >
> > >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.
> >=20
> >=20
> > Any news or status report regarding support for this new=20
> > network interface=20
> > in FreeBSD ?
>=20
> I've copied Doug White who is working to add SerDes support to bce.

I'm _really_ looking forward to getting SerDes support in the bce-driver =
:)

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Morten A. Middelthon

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