Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 18:14:45 +0200 From: Lars Kristiansen <lars+lister.freebsd@adventuras.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 on Dell PowerEdge SC440 Message-ID: <DFCF14B1485F3724FEC8D8F4@angelina.master.local> In-Reply-To: <465C43CB.9020200@xxiii.com> References: <200705241011.49220.dzalewski@open-craft.com> <46557DC3.1050806@adventuras.no> <465C43CB.9020200@xxiii.com>
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--On Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:16:27 -0400 Rob <r17fbsd@xxiii.com> wrote:
> 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:
Afaik, this particulare integrated nic might be supported in freebsd-stable
but not yet in -release.
I did however order a broadcom extra nic with it, which worked "out of the
box".
Here is some output from 'pciconf -lv', first the pci-card, then the
integrated.
bge0@pci4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x165914e4 chip=0x165914e4 rev=0x21
hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
none1@pci5:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01df1028 chip=0x167a14e4 rev=0x02
hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM5754 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
Regards,
Lars
>
> 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
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