From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 10:18:13 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D570B84E for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 10:18:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out9.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out9.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B1501CE0 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 10:18:13 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhwFADRkqlRyxkj4/2dsb2JhbABcgkNDIjCDDsNfAYcCFgEBAQEBfYQTCCAFWQUGEAJQPwEEHoggmVyjK5AUghcMQIEwBYw+gVdNjkCLNiKBUQGCMCqCdAEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,698,1413216000"; d="scan'208,217";a="582191728" Received: from unknown (HELO ianfPC) ([114.198.72.248]) by icp-osb-irony-out9.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 05 Jan 2015 18:18:05 +0800 From: "Ian Fitzgerald" To: Subject: FBSD 10.1 installation attempt on Proliant 150ML G6 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 21:17:51 +1100 Message-ID: <001401d028d0$dca39100$95eab300$@com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AdAo0NxqdVeCSZJLR7a8K+ebzVlUBw== Content-Language: en-au Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 10:18:13 -0000 Hello recipients I have performed countless installs over many years and most have been easy, or my errors are soon discovered. I acquired this solid piece of hardware, and, despite noticing some problems encountered by other FBSD users with this marque, I took up the challenge, using FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64). At first I configured the native gigabit nic (bge), with and without PXE enabled, then installed an Intel gigabit CT (em) card and tried configuring that, with and without bge enabled. Hardware probe finds both nics, and reports whichever is configured to be active. DHCP times out for either, manual configuration (bsdinstall) appears to work, but when the parameters are to be displayed from ?unbound, the entries are blank, requiring re-entry of the values including gateway. Ifconfig reports active configured nic, with the manually entered ip address. Of course ping reports host down for any other hosts on the private network. I am unsure whether this is an old HP problem, whether the board is defective, or whether something malign has been introduced in 10.1. I am loathe to invest in a support contract, especially when the docs for the latest cumulative ROM upgrade contain no mention of nic fixes. Any suggestions? Ian Fitzgerald.