Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:55:35 -0500 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Cc: Alessandro de Manzano <ale@unixmania.net>, freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: two problems with broadcom NICs Message-ID: <200703021755.36600.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070302084747.GA80114@libero.sunshine.ale> References: <20070302084747.GA80114@libero.sunshine.ale>
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On Friday 02 March 2007 03:47 am, Alessandro de Manzano wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a bunch of new Dell PowerEdge SC440 machines, but I've > some problems running FreeBSD on them. > > OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (but also -stable of yesterday), SMP (but > tried also GENERIC monoprocessor), both i386 and amd64, always same > results. > > Situation: Two Broadcom NICs, one on the motherboard and one on > PCI-express bus, here is a snippet of pciconf -lv (as you can see I > had to add a 3COM PCI card in order to have connectivity) > > > bge0@pci3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x165914e4 chip=0x165914e4 > rev=0x21 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > device = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express' > class = network > subclass = ethernet I am not sure about this controller (BTW, you had to include dmesg output) but you may want to try -CURRENT. > none1@pci4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01df1028 chip=0x167a14e4 > rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > class = network > subclass = ethernet This controller is not supported in 6.2-RELEASE. It should be supported in -CURRENT. Jung-uk Kim
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