Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:54:23 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bge/bce support for another Dell card Message-ID: <200609202154.23682.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <4511AA4A.2070601@centtech.com> References: <4511AA4A.2070601@centtech.com>
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On Wednesday 20 September 2006 20:53, Eric Anderson wrote: > Ok, I've seen a lot of bge/bce commits, messages, etc, so I may > have missed something - please point me to a commit or message if I > did.. > > We've got a brand new Dell Precision 390 (Core 2 Duo) which has a > Broadcom NIC in it, Probably much like the one in the PowerEdge > 1950, but cheaper and less reliable (if you can imagine that). > It's doesn't seem to be supported yet on the 6-STABLE branch, and > so I'm wondering if we would have better luck with -CURRENT, or if > the PCI ID's just need to be mapped out, etc. > > Here's the pciconf output for that card: > > none2@pci4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01de1028 chip=0x167a14e4 > rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > > I see a line in the bge driver (sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h), like: > > #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5754 0x167A > > But I believe it's a BCM5787, and when the bge driver loads, the > system panics because of (excude my vagueness here - I'll get the > details tomorrow) some kind of NMI memory checksum failure, but the > device is fine, tests ok, and runs perfectly under other OS'es. > > Is that device supposed to be supported yet on -STABLE or -CURRENT? > > Thanks! > Eric This may not help you much but the driver in 6.x-STABLE doesn't support the PE1950 either. I had to download a newer version of the driver from the author of the driver and install in manually. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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