freebsd stable - Jan 2007 - Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

Hello Dave !
>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.

Any news or status report regarding support for this new network interface 
in FreeBSD ?


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> Hello Dave !
> 
> >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.
> 
> 
> Any news or status report regarding support for this new 
> network interface 
> in FreeBSD ?
I've copied Doug White who is working to add SerDes support to bce.

Dave

We tested the latest version (1.2.2.12) of the driver on Friday (Feb 9,
2007), but could not get the interfaces up.

 

Has anybody managed to get the network interfaces up and running with this
latest version of the driver?

 

Thanks,

Pentti


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Hi !
> We tested the latest version (1.2.2.12) of the driver on Friday (Feb 9,
> 2007), but could not get the interfaces up.
>
> Has anybody managed to get the network interfaces up and running with this
> latest version of the driver?

http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/patches/bce-serdes-20070111.tar.gz

These should apply cleanly to RELENG_6.



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