From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 2 23:12:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA0810656CD for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:12:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikes@siralan.org) Received: from arvo.suso.org (arvo.suso.org [66.244.94.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB658FC27 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:12:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikes@siralan.org) Received: from c-98-220-3-224.hsd1.in.comcast.net (c-98-220-3-224.hsd1.in.comcast.net [98.220.3.224]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by arvo.suso.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D8B88057; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:10:36 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:11:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael L. Squires" X-X-Sender: mikes@familysquires.net To: Tim Judd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20090602190148.B16783@familysquires.net> References: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392956DF@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> <20090602220709.GA24465@owl.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel NIC issues 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, 02 Jun 2009 23:12:04 -0000 > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > Using kenv smbios.system.product might be a good indication of what you > have too. > Running "kenv smbios.system.product" on two of my machines with Supermicro motherboards gives me "P4SSE" and "P4DC6" which are both correct. I know Supermicro has made variants of boards for vendors; for example, I have a P4DC6 which has no RAID card slot (the solder pads are there, not the card connector) although this is alleged to be a standard feature of the P4DC6 in the Supermicro manual. I have a 1U server (the P4SSE) with a "bge" gigabit Ethernet NIC; rather than fight with the cards issues I installed an Intel PCI-X gigabit card, cost $15. Now that the "bge" problems appear to be solved I may go back to it, however. (The Intel NIC uses an internal riser which allows for one card). If your vendor promised you two gigabit NICs this may be the cheap solution (other than replacing the motherboard). I'm using Intel Pro/1000 and Pro/100 cards exclusively, except in a notebook, and I've never found FreeBSD to incorrectly identify the card. Mike Squires