Sean Bruno <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:
se> On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 18:46 -0700, Hiroki Sato wrote: se> > Peter Feger <[email protected]> wrote se> > in <CAD_3y4wAPp+8ZSveB6mbOF7M1Ne-zAvz4Uf=vv9quohuu23...@mail.gmail.com>: se> > se> > ma> I just got done installing FreeBSD-9.0 on a Dell R720. I can tell you se> > ma> that none of the broadcom products will work. There is no driver that se> > ma> I have been able to find. I wound up having to replace them with se> > ma> Intel nics. I used the i350 quad-port 1G and the x520 for 10G Fiber. se> > se> > I recently bought a Dell R420 which had BCM 5720 as the LOM. The se> > output of pciconf was the following: se> > se> > bge0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x04f81028 chip=0x165f14e4 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 se> > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' se> > device = 'NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe' se> > class = network se> > subclass = ethernet se> > se> > On 9.1-PRERELEASE as of Jul 23, it was recognized but did not work se> > properly first (the link-status went back and forth between up and se> > down). However, after setting dev.bge.0.msi=0 it worked. I am not se> > sure of whether it had decent communication speed or not, but I saw se> > it worked with 50MB/s or so at least. se> > se> > IPMI over LAN did not work even if hw.bge.allow_asf was set to 1. se> > se> > -- Hiroki se> se> se> se> For the r420/320 ... grab Pyun's latest updates and give it a whirl. se> They seem to work for us at yahoo: se> se> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/bge/ Thanks! I am testing his patches... -- Hiroki
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