From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 13:50:54 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 A8FA916A4D1 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:50:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66BED43D9C for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:48:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i28so400920wra for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:50:21 -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=L6pQnxhopvlpl7MeYi6FBQ2H4ETOUp16R2kxQGdti+caHi2VWJ5kFgCVM3h97VMDszQfIhunvM9a0YfMKMga8jaWcOaL8GB6A9qRWD02NxdEhJ0VQinHa7n7rqhmx5OxN8tx21pSbPTJeayP4PHwQG5VpIIkIj1264/A1sKBs08= Received: by 10.49.28.3 with SMTP id f3mr2536114nfj.1166190618918; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:50:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.100.10 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:50:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:50:18 +0100 From: "Claus Guttesen" To: "Morten A. Middelthon" In-Reply-To: <20061215125509.GK2761@freenix.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061215125509.GK2761@freenix.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Conrad Burger 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 13:50:54 -0000 > > 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 :) There is not much response regardring this issue other than "me too". The need for an updated driver is there and if we want some progress I believe some financing seems to be the only alternative. Maby Scott (Long) has some thought on this (if he's not to busy getting 6.2 ready). Claus