From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 18 16:17:49 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 832C316A412 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:17:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16DF543D46 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:17:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from localhost (BREAKFEST.WPLUG.ORG [128.2.178.9]) (AUTH: LOGIN wmoran, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:17:47 -0500 id 00056463.455F322B.00003138 Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:19:32 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Paul Schmehl Message-Id: <20061118111932.c043215c.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <8289B626D72650D4AD7B35B3@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> References: <455ED90E.10400@unixware.ro> <8289B626D72650D4AD7B35B3@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: UNIX - Questions 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 16:17:49 -0000 On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:08:03 -0600 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On November 18, 2006 11:57:34 AM +0200 ovidiu ene > 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 > rebuild world and kernel. The network card driver has a problem, and the > usb driver has a problem. The former causes the network card to become > unusable and only a reboot will fix it. The latter prevents you from > using the DRAC card (if you ordered one with the 1950.) > > Both problems can be overcome with newer source code files, but you then > have to rebuild world and kernel. And you must save those source code > files, because you'll need them every time you have to update world or > kernel due to security patches. Another option is to wait a month or two for 6.2, which already incorporates these fixes. You can try out the 6.2-RC sets, and it will be trivial to upgrade form RC to RELEASE. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com