Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:09:00 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell T105? ($350 dual-core Opteron) Message-ID: <200712201409.08385.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <863atxil7o.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org> References: <86hciuilpx.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> <86bq8yjwii.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> <863atxil7o.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thursday 20 December 2007, Chris Shenton wrote: > [I'm adding -current as there are other discussions of hardware > compatibility there, trim if appropriate] > > Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> writes: > > > > http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/pe_T105_spec_s > >heet.pdf > > > > Processors Single AMD Opteron TM 1000 series at up to > > 2.8GHz; Single AMD SempronTM LE1250 at 2.2GHz > > > > HyperTransportTM HyperTransport at 2000MT/s > > > > Chipset nVidia CK8-04 Pro > > > > Network Interfaces Single embedded Gigabit3 NIC > > I installed FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 amd64 this morning and it boots fine, > detects both CPUs, but can't seem to find a driver for the ethernet. It > doesn't offer anything at install time (only slip and ppp) and shows > nothing in ifconfig when running. > > The one thing I see in dmesg is: > > pci2: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no driver attached) > > Some pages I've found say this is a Broadcom 5721J chipset: > > > http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/servers_Q4_W5_20 >07-12-01_pedge_t105_Q421211?c=my&cs=mybsd1&l=en&s=bsd > > An Ubuntu message says they see it with a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 > driver: > > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3961378 > > Any suggestions on how I can poke at it to find what kind of hardware > it's using and what driver I need to use for it? Sounds like the bge(4) driver might work. Take a look at "pciconfig -lv" to identify the chip and PCI vendor id. Try adding that information to src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c::bge_devs[] and subsequent chip revision arrays. It's easiest to build a kernel w/o device bge and loading bge from modules. This way you can cd to src/sys/modules/bge and "make load; #test; make unload; #change source; #repeat" until it works. -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHaml0XyyEoT62BG0RAu6JAJ4siW1lj/psgDkefZ4N5P+2FuYTOwCdFCu/ mdJ+XPLur18lW4v8MvAF4Jg= =tBtJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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