On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:14:59AM -0800, jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu wrote:
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>In message <20060307172805.GA6702@sta.duo>, "George Georgalis" writes:
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>[...]
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>>I have no idea what's up with the keyboard but the nic is a
>>Broadcom bcm5700 which I don't see in 3-0 source. The blades came
>>with RedHat, the dmesg is below. Is there any hope?
>
>Nope, you won't ever find a bcm5700 in a high-density blade, since a
>real bcm5700 requires a separate PHY chip.  hmm.
>
>Looking at your linux device-configuration/ACPI output, the Linux
>*driver* is for the bcm57xx gig-e family, what you have is a bcm5714.
>There's support in bge(4) in NetBSD-current for the 5714/5715 and
>(untested) for 5780, and an incomplete backport (PCI-ids, PHY support)
>in NetBSD-3-stable.  I can arrange a pullup, or (if you can rebuild a
>kernel/install media) send a patch.

Well, that is really great news! to clarify, we have 8 blades and one
switch module, described as:

# Up to 12 Blades per Chassis
# One or Two 20-port (12 int/8 ext) Gigabit Ethernet Switches 

The module has a single board that slides out the backplane with
approx 98 pins (an 8x12 block), plus some power tabs.

If I could build.sh a cdrom from current, or manually get there,
that would be great. I've done enough NetBSD cvs, kernel and dist
builds to call myself competent (much more experience with Linux);
but I've never made NetBSD install media, yet. So, I'd be happy to
give it a try, but I may need some guidance.  (I only occasionally
get hands on with the hardware, competent remote hands will be
available, but that could make the process slow.)

>I don't know enough about your other problems (PS/2 kbd on blade,
>sata) to comment.

the disks are 5400rpm laptop drives, weren't planning on getting
performance out of them, so sata may be a non-issue. I'm sure the
keyboard issue can be worked out, somehow, the installer doesn't
seem to have a keyboard problem and serial may be an option in any
event.


>>Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Driver bcm5700 with Broadcom NIC Extension (NICE) ve
>>r. 8.2.18 (08/01/05)
>>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.0[A] -> GSI 26 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
>>eth0: Broadcom BCM5780S 1000Base-SX  found at mem f72d0000, IRQ 169, node addr
>> 00a0d1e2b242
>>eth0: Broadcom BCM5714S Integrated Serdes transceiver found
>>eth0: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx Checksum ON, Rx Checksum ON, 802.1Q
>> VLAN ON, TSO ON
>>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.1[B] -> GSI 27 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
>>eth1: Broadcom BCM5780S 1000Base-SX  found at mem f72f0000, IRQ 177, node addr
>> 00a0d1e2b243
>>eth1: Broadcom BCM5714S Integrated Serdes transceiver found
>>eth1: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx Checksum ON, Rx Checksum ON, 802.1Q
>> VLAN ON, TSO ON
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>SERDES? are these really optical gig-e? I doubt the NetBSD driver
>supports them.

Well, not sure what to say on that. The ports are defiantly cat-5e
copper.

// George


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