From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 29 15:16:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA98416A41F for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 15:16:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r17fbsd@xxiii.com) Received: from cartman.xxiii.com (cartman.xxiii.com [208.62.177.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2D813C457 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 15:16:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r17fbsd@xxiii.com) Received: from [172.23.23.190] (lan23.xxiii.com [208.62.177.50]) by cartman.xxiii.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4TFGPro086165 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 11:16:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from r17fbsd@xxiii.com) Message-ID: <465C43CB.9020200@xxiii.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:16:27 -0400 From: Rob User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200705241011.49220.dzalewski@open-craft.com> <46557DC3.1050806@adventuras.no> In-Reply-To: <46557DC3.1050806@adventuras.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 on Dell PowerEdge SC440 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: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:16:26 -0000 Lars Kristiansen wrote: > Dominik Zalewski skrev: >> I'm thinking of buying Dell PowerEdge SC440 for a small webserver. >> Anyone using this server with FreeBSD 6.2 -release ? Any issues? Some > > 6.2-release does not have a driver for the built-in network interface. > So you probarly want to order it with extra gigabit nic. I have last year's model, the SC430. I don't know what they changed but the 440's specs still say "integrated Boardcom gigabit NIC". The bge driver in 6.x has worked just fine for me. You do need to either custom-compile it in, or load it at boot time. See the man pages: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html Actually, looking at the 6.2-release i386/GENERIC kernel conf, it's compiled in by default. The machine has been a very reliable "bare bones" server for us; just what I wanted. I think the system board is an Intel-OEM. Intel SATA on it has been reliable. The case is "BTX" -- a new standard pushed by Dell and some other Tier One manufacturers. -RW