From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 18 16:07:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11EB316A403 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:07:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from mail.stovebolt.com (mail.stovebolt.com [66.221.101.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE78443D45 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:07:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (adsl-65-67-102-191.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [65.67.102.191]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.stovebolt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C80D8114307 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:04:31 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:08:03 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: UNIX - Questions Message-ID: <8289B626D72650D4AD7B35B3@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <455ED90E.10400@unixware.ro> References: <455ED90E.10400@unixware.ro> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.7b1 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="==========6D8F60841C0F084567A8==========" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: PowerEdgeTM 1950 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:07:56 -0000 --==========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 =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 ehci.c v 1.42: 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==========--