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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:46:32 +0900 (JST)
From:      Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        magickal1@gmail.com
Cc:        jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Broadcom NetXtreme bcm5720 in the 9.1 beta
Message-ID:  <20120725.104632.310862314390082195.hrs@allbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAD_3y4wAPp%2B8ZSveB6mbOF7M1Ne-zAvz4Uf=VV9quohUU23xHA@mail.gmail.com>
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Peter Feger <magickal1@gmail.com> wrote
  in <CAD_3y4wAPp+8ZSveB6mbOF7M1Ne-zAvz4Uf=VV9quohUU23xHA@mail.gmail.com>:

ma> I just got done installing FreeBSD-9.0 on a Dell R720.  I can tell you
ma> that none of the broadcom products will work.  There is no driver that
ma> I have been able to find.  I wound up having to replace them with
ma> Intel nics.  I used the i350 quad-port 1G  and the x520 for 10G Fiber.

 I recently bought a Dell R420 which had BCM 5720 as the LOM.  The
 output of pciconf was the following:

bge0@pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x04f81028 chip=0x165f14e4 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

 On 9.1-PRERELEASE as of Jul 23, it was recognized but did not work
 properly first (the link-status went back and forth between up and
 down).  However, after setting dev.bge.0.msi=0 it worked.  I am not
 sure of whether it had decent communication speed or not, but I saw
 it worked with 50MB/s or so at least.

 IPMI over LAN did not work even if hw.bge.allow_asf was set to 1.

-- Hiroki

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