From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 25 19:20:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8F01065679; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:20:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seanbru@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from mrout1-b.corp.bf1.yahoo.com (mrout1-b.corp.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.253.104]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57FE18FC2E; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:20:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (rideseveral.corp.yahoo.com [10.73.160.231]) by mrout1-b.corp.bf1.yahoo.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/y.out) with ESMTP id q6PJJTdf071982; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:19:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=yahoo-inc.com; s=cobra; t=1343243970; bh=+DNp7bdfbml+VNVasG1+lp/QWEdLJgFnA+tZe5Tm8Lw=; h=Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date: Message-ID:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=mCMBpvzCRxoU7Yjmw4ycm82tK2KzZLbmZfmtx5tqKNXg/bSId2JtKTJMIuUgmgbM/ 8Ns32N0ncYi1zjSfvsuu4BS7yKiUJVvGGV0LON5MDEu9wYc+CyAPV0UH121xBZqIoh mqcVlIsj3oKfUJxYombktQoGlz7ZxouHdsdq+0fQ= From: Sean Bruno To: Hiroki Sato In-Reply-To: <20120725.104632.310862314390082195.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <500DE3A9.30802@theiconic.com.au> <20120725.104632.310862314390082195.hrs@allbsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:19:29 -0700 Message-ID: <1343243969.2727.2.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Milter-Version: master.31+4-gbc07cd5+ X-CLX-ID: 243969002 Cc: "magickal1@gmail.com" , "jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au" , "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXtreme bcm5720 in the 9.1 beta X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:20:01 -0000 On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 18:46 -0700, Hiroki Sato wrote: > Peter Feger wrote > in : > > 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