Re: bge/bce support for another Dell card

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_at_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  I had to download a newer version of the 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