From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 21:38:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A47AA16A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:38:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEBB43D1F for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:38:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com ([192.168.42.24]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i0N5cQ6T010653; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:38:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4010B336.3090800@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:37:58 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20040121 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Muthu_T@Dell.com References: <136A7C767A0679488C4642731C2186E00262D5@blrx2kmbgl301.blr.amer.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <136A7C767A0679488C4642731C2186E00262D5@blrx2kmbgl301.blr.amer.dell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2 on DELL m/c's X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 05:38:28 -0000 Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote: >I had installed 5.2 Release on couple of Dell machines. >It works fine on all the systems. (but some dhclient error messages >thrown on console often). > >In older machines (like PE4300) it works only if we disabled ACPI. >But in new machines (PE1750, PE1650) it works fine by default(with >ACPI). > >All RAID and BroadCom network drivers are working fine. > >So if anything needs to be tested on Dell Machines please let me know. >I will do it in my spare time. > >But I cannot install 5.2 via USB CDROM. Anybody have any ideas? > > Make sure PERC boards work flawlessly - I had some issues with 5.1, but I think they're gone now. Broadcom gige nics seemed to "flop" up and down under heavy load on my 6450's under 5.1. Those are the only things I didn't like about FreeBSD+Dell.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ------------------------------------------------------------------