From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 17:01:36 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 7BA3E16A41F for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:01:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (lexi.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924CC43D60 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:01:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from [10.7.6.251] ([63.76.235.163]) by lexi.siliconlandmark.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k05H1FcX042500; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:01:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) In-Reply-To: <200601050917.k059HeAN023417@reddevil.brancatelli.it> References: <200601050917.k059HeAN023417@reddevil.brancatelli.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <160B72FB-0B0A-4B8F-9065-5EFBCB41D4EC@siliconlandmark.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Andre Guibert de Bruet Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:01:09 -0500 To: Andrea Brancatelli X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-SL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-SL-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.738, required 6, AWL -0.28, BAYES_00 -2.60, SPF_FAIL 1.14) X-MailScanner-From: andy@siliconlandmark.com 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: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:01:36 -0000 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. pciconf thinks the following, on both systems: bge0@pci1:8:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00d11028 chip=0x164414e4 rev=0x12 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM5700 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller' class = network subclass = ethernet dmesg: bge0: mem 0xfeb00000-0xfeb0ffff irq 17 at device 8.0 on pci1 miibus0: on bge0 brgphy0: on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge0: Ethernet address: 00:06:5b:3a:xx:xx ifconfig: bge0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=1a inet 10.10.10.110 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255 ether 00:06:5b:3a:xx:xx media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active > Hints? Does your blade management console allow you to enable/disable the ethernet cards presented to the system (By returning no carrier status)? Andy /* Andre Guibert de Bruet * 6f43 6564 7020 656f 2e74 4220 7469 6a20 */ /* Code poet / Sysadmin * 636f 656b 2e79 5320 7379 6461 696d 2e6e */ /* GSM: +1 734 846 8758 * 5520 494e 2058 6c73 7565 6874 002e 0000 */ /* WWW: siliconlandmark.com * Tormenting bytes since 1980. */