From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 14 00:34:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2182016A41F for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:34:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wfroning@home.angui.sh) Received: from angui.sh (dsl081-242-113.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.242.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B121243D45 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:34:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wfroning@home.angui.sh) Received: from home.angui.sh (localhost.angui.sh [127.0.0.1]) by angui.sh (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0E0WOJ6026828 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:32:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wfroning@home.angui.sh) Received: from localhost (wfroning@localhost) by home.angui.sh (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id k0E0WOg7026825; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:32:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wfroning@home.angui.sh) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:32:24 -0800 (PST) From: Will Froning To: Andrea Brancatelli In-Reply-To: <160B72FB-0B0A-4B8F-9065-5EFBCB41D4EC@siliconlandmark.com> Message-ID: <20060113162946.V26744@home.angui.sh> References: <200601050917.k059HeAN023417@reddevil.brancatelli.it> <160B72FB-0B0A-4B8F-9065-5EFBCB41D4EC@siliconlandmark.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: -2.82 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 64.81.57.93 Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The BladeCenter Saga. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:34:40 -0000 On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: =>On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:17 AM, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: => =>> The blades have two Broadcom NICs... the bge drivers fires up with no =>> problem, but none of the bge0/bge1 card seems to actually work. Whathever =>> setting I apply to them I cannot reach anything on the outside, and =>> furthermore the emergency shell on VTY4 allows me a very short set of =>> commands. I have no doubts on the functionality of the hardware for =>> various reason (we tried to install on 3 different server always with the =>> same results; one of the blades was working ok with windows 2003 before). =>> =>> A very suspicious thing is that ifconfig reports for both the cards: =>> "status: no carrier", while the cable is surely pulled in (it's hard =>> wired, it cannot be pulled off at all). =>> =>> So we are stuck again. I downloaded the complete ISO for amd64. I plan on =>> doing the installation from CDRom on Blade 3 (the one that actually =>> succeeds in seeing the CD) and then investigate further on the Broadcom =>> issue. =>> =>> Do anyone has ever stepped on problem with the bge driver? => =>Though not in a blade configuration, I have had a couple of Dell PowerEdge =>servers with the bge driver running for a couple of years flawlessly. I can agree to bge cards working on standard Dell 1U/2U/xU boxes, but they did not work in the first generation Dell blades I tested. So there is definitely some difference even when the chips are reported to be the same. Thanks, Will -- Will Froning Unix Sys. Admin. wfroning@angui.sh