In response to "Morten A. Middelthon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:17:00PM +0200, Conrad Burger wrote: > > 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 :)
Support for them is in CURRENT and 6.2, although the comment saying that they're _not_ supported is still there as well ;) -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
