From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 29 16:15:57 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 6FCD616A421 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:15:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars+lister.freebsd@adventuras.no) Received: from mail.adventuras.no (mail.adventuras.no [194.63.250.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E34BF13C448 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:15:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars+lister.freebsd@adventuras.no) Received: from [10.11.12.32] (exposervice [195.159.158.122]) by mail.adventuras.no (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l4TGEjvd030748 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 18:14:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lars+lister.freebsd@adventuras.no) Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 18:14:45 +0200 From: Lars Kristiansen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <465C43CB.9020200@xxiii.com> References: <200705241011.49220.dzalewski@open-craft.com> <46557DC3.1050806@adventuras.no> <465C43CB.9020200@xxiii.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Adventuras: du kan filtrere etter AdvSpamScore over 5-10 X-Adventuras-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.599, required 6, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: lars+lister.freebsd@adventuras.no X-Spam-Status: No 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 16:15:57 -0000 --On Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:16:27 -0400 Rob 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