Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:19:29 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> Cc: "magickal1@gmail.com" <magickal1@gmail.com>, "jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au" <jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXtreme bcm5720 in the 9.1 beta Message-ID: <1343243969.2727.2.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20120725.104632.310862314390082195.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <500DE3A9.30802@theiconic.com.au> <CAD_3y4wAPp%2B8ZSveB6mbOF7M1Ne-zAvz4Uf=VV9quohUU23xHA@mail.gmail.com> <20120725.104632.310862314390082195.hrs@allbsd.org>
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On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 18:46 -0700, Hiroki Sato wrote: > 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 For the r420/320 ... grab Pyun's latest updates and give it a whirl. They seem to work for us at yahoo: http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/bge/ Sean
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