Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:08:03 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: UNIX - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PowerEdgeTM 1950 Message-ID: <8289B626D72650D4AD7B35B3@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <455ED90E.10400@unixware.ro> References: <455ED90E.10400@unixware.ro>
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--==========6D8F60841C0F084567A8========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On November 18, 2006 11:57:34 AM +0200 ovidiu ene <ovidiue@unixware.ro>=20 wrote: > Hello guys, > > I want to know if Dell PowerEdge 1950 works fine on FreeBSD 6.1 i386. > (I am interested if network cards are detected and work properly, also > if SATA/SAS drive is detected properly. > There are two problems that you must overcome and they require that you=20 rebuild world and kernel. The network card driver has a problem, and the=20 usb driver has a problem. The former causes the network card to become=20 unusable and only a reboot will fix it. The latter prevents you from=20 using the DRAC card (if you ordered one with the 1950.) Both problems can be overcome with newer source code files, but you then=20 have to rebuild world and kernel. And you must save those source code=20 files, because you'll need them every time you have to update world or=20 kernel due to security patches. The two files in question are if_bce.c and ehci.c. if_bce.c <http://www.ifdnrg.com/freebsd_broadcom_dell_1950.htm>; ehci.c v 1.42: <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/usb/ehci.c?rev=3D1.42&co= ntent-type=3Dtext/x-cvsweb-markup> Put this version in place in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb, comment out line 766 and rebuild your kernel and the DRAC5 keyboard will start to work. The commit note says MFC after 2 weeks, but this seems to have been = missed. I'm going to ping the maintainers and see if I can get it MFCed before 6.2 comes out. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========6D8F60841C0F084567A8==========--
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