From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 13:23:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14CE916A400 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:23:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2AEF43D79 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:23:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 14259 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2006 13:23:40 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Jun 2006 13:23:40 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 4184C28449; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:23:39 -0400 (EDT) To: Mattias =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rk?= References: <449ED42E.60605@sydnet.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:23:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <449ED42E.60605@sydnet.net> (Mattias =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rk's?= message of "Sun, 25 Jun 2006 20:21:34 +0200") Message-ID: <44k674oxt1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding Fujitsu Siemens Primergy RX220 AMD64. 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: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:23:41 -0000 Mattias Bj=F6rk writes: > Hi List members, > > Have recently acquired me an "Fujitsu Siemens Primergy RX220 AMD64". > Everything works fine except one thing, the build in dual broadcom > 5780 NIC. I see that 6.1 does not support that hardware according to > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-amd64.html. > > I thought that freebsd-questions@freebsd.org was a better choice of > sending the mail to than amd64@freebsd.org But I might be wrong here. > > Anyhow I have two questions more or less: > > Has anybody succeed in getting it to work and do you have a patch for > it? (Should I try out stable branch instead of 6.1 Release?) > > I everything else fails could you recommend a NIC that works with > FreeBSD and is dual Gigabit. Im thinking of an "Intel Pro/1000 MT DP > Server" or "Intel Pro/1000PT Dual Port Server Adapter PCI-E" how ever > the later I could not find on > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-amd64.html. > > But if you check it up on Intel's homepage it mentions that FreeBSD is > support but that is rater vague description on with arch its supported > on. (If I'm not missing something that is) > > Hopefully support for the broadcom 5780-chipset is right around the corne= r. The CPU architecture shouldn't make any difference for these adapters, so don't worry too much about that.=20=20 The 5780 support doesn't look like it should be that hard; PR 68351 seems to have just gotten some patches that may do it. NetBSD's support should be easy to port in any case. The Intel Pro/1000PT has an 82572 controller. That is supported by the em device, so you should be fine with that. The other Intel card you mention I think is in the same driver as well.