On Friday 23 October 2009 11:17:33 am Johan Hendriks wrote:
>
> On Thursday 22 October 2009 11:07:23 am Johan Hendriks wrote:
> >> Hello all
> >> I just installed FreeBSD 8.0RC1 AMD64 on my new HP Proliant ML150 G6
> >> server.
> >> It fails to detect the Broadcom network interface.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Pciconf -lv gives me the following.
> >>
> >> no...@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x705d10c
> chip=0x165b14e4
> >> rev=0x10
> >> hdr=0x00
> >>
> >> vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> >> class = network
> >>
> >> Subclass = Ethernet
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there something I can do, other than install an other network
> card?
>
> >I think you can just patch the bge(4) driver to add support for your
> >adapter.
> >It looks like a BCM5723 from the PCI ID. Support for it was just added
> in
> >9.0 as part of change 197832, but I suspect it might not need all the
> other
> >patches from that change. Try this diff:
>
> >Index: if_bgereg.h
> >===================================================================
> >--- if_bgereg.h (revision 197831)
> >+++ if_bgereg.h (revision 197832)
> >@@ -2101,6 +2123,7 @@
> > #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5720 0x1658
> > #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5721 0x1659
> > #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5722 0x165A
> >+#define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5723 0x165B
> > #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750 0x1676
> > #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750M 0x167C
> > #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5751 0x1677
> >Index: if_bge.c
> >===================================================================
> >--- if_bge.c (revision 197831)
> >+++ if_bge.c (revision 197832)
> >@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@
> > { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5720 },
> > { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5721 },
> > { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5722 },
> >+ { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5723 },
> > { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750 },
> > { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5750M },
> > { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5751 },
>
>
> Ok done that, and the card is found, only the server is not very stable
> right now.
> It does not continue the boot.
> It stops at setting the hostname
>
> Setting hostname: server01.mydomain.local
>
> And it stays there.
Can you tell what it is doing (with Ctrl-T, or perhaps including ddb and
breaking into ddb and using 'ps')?
--
John Baldwin
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