From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 22:30:41 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5518116A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:30:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67BB43D31 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:30:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1BMUe3h068200; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1BMUest068199; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:30:40 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alan Jay Message-ID: <20050211223039.GA68054@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050211100900.69D6E5488D@buxton.digitalspy.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050211100900.69D6E5488D@buxton.digitalspy.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Thunder K8S pro S2882 twin Operteron X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:30:41 -0000 On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:08:57AM -0000, Alan Jay wrote: > Having got 5.3 onto our new twin operteron Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882 with 8Gb > of RAM and had a reasonabley stable operation for a few days we installed a > couple of databases one worked fine but the other kept on causing the server > to crash. After some hunting around we found discussion about problems with > the on board Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 Gigabit ethernet controller on > Linux last year and wondered if there were similar issues with FreeBSD 5.3's > broadcom driver? This wouldn't be an amd64-specific problem as the driver is the same in all FreeBSD. You'll get a wider audience asking on freebsd-stable@. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)