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Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 00:01:12 +0100
From: Richard Smith <rdls@rdls.net>
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc: Patrick Guerin <pat@inix.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Dell 2550 Unable to load OS
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:16:29AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:42:24 -1000 (HST)
> > From: Patrick Guerin <pat@inix.com>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > 
> > I have the Linux drivers for the Dell 2550 and wanted to get them to those
> > who develop FreeBSD.  Does anyone know where I should e-mail the drivers
> > to?  Or is this a waste of the developers time?  Any thoughts?
> 
> What Linux drivers? I'm not aware of any need for special drivers for
> Dell PowerEdge boxes. Mine works fine with a standard 4.3 distro. (The
> PERC won't work with 4.2-Release.)

4.3-RELEASE will not install on a Dell 2550 with the PERC 3/Di, as it
requires new PCI IDs which were only submitted 7 weeks ago and just 
missed the last release. I needed to roll my own `release' CD of 
4.3-STABLE in order to get it to install.

Rich.


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