Re: FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP
Simon wrote: Are you trying to run a generic kernel, if not, have you tried? -Simon Yes, I am trying to boot GENERIC. Michael! ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD and DELL PowerEdge Blade servers.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2008-June/005203.htmlHi, I am not able to run FreeBSD 7 (amd64) on Dell Blade PE M600. It simply Freeze during the boot process, before launching the FreeBSD installer. It is a problem because it is the new serie of the Dell servers, they only sell this serie now. Cheers, ronan. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP
Hi all, I try to run FreeBSD-7-AMD64 on a Quad Xeon (Xeon MP 7320) and 32GB RAM. The Board is a X7QC3 by supermicro and the installation is done on another system, updated and plugged to this system. So I have a drive with 7-STABLE compiled today. The last line I see from dmesg is vga0- then the system freezes. Anyone using a similar configuration or knows what could be wrong? I still have some days left to play with it, before this box gets shipped to the customer. Regards, Michael! ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Issue with 7.0-RELEASE and Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Hello Jeremy, Sevan and Pyun! Thanks for your fast answers! I'm happy to see that it could work with the newest 7.0-STABLE tree because I don't want to buy a new NIC which works with FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD for 90% (for some years now) and therefore I also bought a 3ware 8006-2LP Hardware- RAID controller and will buy a second HighPoint 3120 HW-RAID controller (which is less expensive) because I had bad experiences with the Fake- (or Pseudo-)RAID controllers like the normal onboard controllers and others (Promise FastTrak 4310 etc.). Now I also have troubles with FreeBSD and the ICH9R SATA-controller and it's RAID functionality. So I don't want to pay more money for special hardware which works with FreBSD... BTW: Where can I read changes to the drivers (like this one) to be up to date? Is FreeBSD's CVS Repository the only ressource? It seems as if there's no new snapshot for the amd64 arch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200808/ So I will try 200807 or do you have a better idea? Maybe I can't test it in the next three weeks :-( but when I come back to home then it will be the first I do! :-) Regards and thanks again! Lukas On Monday 11 August 2008 01:44:21 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:00:58AM +0200, Lukas Razik wrote: Hello! I've a GigaByte GA-X48-DQ6 Motherboard with a RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC and I've read that 7.0-RELEASE / amd64 should recognize these cards (by the re driver) but it doesn't in my case. So, does FreeBSD 7.0 work with these NICs or am I out of luck? Please download a FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE snapshot CD and try it. The re(4) maintainer has added support for many different sub-revisions of this NIC (read: same model number, but a completely different hardware revision) since the release of 7.0-RELEASE. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200808/ (Or a mirror of your choice, e.g. ftp4.freebsd.org, etc.) On Monday 11 August 2008 01:09:40 Sevan / Venture37 wrote: a working driver which needs testing is available in 7-STABLE _ Win New York holidays with Kellogg’s Live Search http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/107571440/direct/01/___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 11 August 2008 03:55:28 Pyun YongHyeon wrote: So, does FreeBSD 7.0 work with these NICs or am I out of luck? It looks like your hardware would be second generation of PCIe RTL8168/8111. Try latest 7 stable which might have support for your hardware. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Issue with 7.0-RELEASE and Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:21:00PM +0200, Lukas Razik wrote: Hello Jeremy, Sevan and Pyun! Thanks for your fast answers! I'm happy to see that it could work with the newest 7.0-STABLE tree because I don't want to buy a new NIC which works with FreeBSD. Be aware that Realtek NICs have a history of being incredibly buggy and having very odd engineering design flaws. I go to great lengths to avoid them on motherboards; I agree an OS should work with it, but based on the pain I've seen Yong-Hyeon (driver maintainer) go through when it comes to hardware revisions or general oddities, I often cringe at the idea of using a Realtek NIC in any environment I have control over. (I've blogged about how Realtek more or less dominates the consumer market with their NIC/PHYs, which is quite scary considering the bugs even in their Windows drivers.) I am very, very thankful we have an active rl(4) and re(4) driver maintainer, though. :-) I use FreeBSD for 90% (for some years now) and therefore I also bought a 3ware 8006-2LP Hardware- RAID controller and will buy a second HighPoint 3120 HW-RAID controller (which is less expensive) because I had bad experiences with the Fake- (or Pseudo-)RAID controllers like the normal onboard controllers and others (Promise FastTrak 4310 etc.). I have a tendency to like Intel (and occasionally nVidia, but highly prefer Intel) ICH controllers simply because Intel has fantastic product errata, and the ICH controllers have performed quite well over the years. They're also used on server hardware (read: Supermicro). But in this day and age, one of the best SATA controllers for FreeBSD is an Areca controller. They're somewhat expensive (comparatively), but the performance is apparently stunning, combined with decent FreeBSD drivers that utilise CAM and da(4) (yes, despite the disks being SATA). Every time people mention them on the lists, the response is the same: amazing performance, and really good driver + administrative support (e.g. software administrative utilities). I do wish Areca made a less expensive controller with less features, intended for tech-savvy consumer use, in the US$125 or less price range. Now I also have troubles with FreeBSD and the ICH9R SATA-controller and it's RAID functionality. I'm not surprised. FreeBSD's Intel MatrixRAID support is very dangerous, I would not recommend using it if your data matters. There are a few PRs which contain patches that address some of the concerns, but out-of-the-box, I'd recommend avoiding Intel MatrixRAID on FreeBSD. So I don't want to pay more money for special hardware which works with FreBSD... BTW: Where can I read changes to the drivers (like this one) to be up to date? Is FreeBSD's CVS Repository the only ressource? It seems as if there's no new snapshot for the amd64 arch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200808/ As far as I know, CVS is the only place you'll get explanations. It would be a daunting task to document every little change to snapshots. The ISO/CD snapshots are automatically generated, AFAIK. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP
On Monday 11 August 2008 11:25:01 am Michael Fuckner wrote: Hi all, I try to run FreeBSD-7-AMD64 on a Quad Xeon (Xeon MP 7320) and 32GB RAM. The Board is a X7QC3 by supermicro and the installation is done on another system, updated and plugged to this system. So I have a drive with 7-STABLE compiled today. The last line I see from dmesg is vga0- then the system freezes. Anyone using a similar configuration or knows what could be wrong? I still have some days left to play with it, before this box gets shipped to the customer. It is probably waiting for a config intr hook to complete. rwatson@ recently added some code to HEAD to help with debugging hangs there. That patch probably applies directly to 7.x and would be helpful in determining what is hanging. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP
Michael Fuckner wrote: Hi all, I try to run FreeBSD-7-AMD64 on a Quad Xeon (Xeon MP 7320) and 32GB RAM. The Board is a X7QC3 by supermicro and the installation is done on another system, updated and plugged to this system. So I have a drive with 7-STABLE compiled today. The last line I see from dmesg is vga0- then the system freezes. Anyone using a similar configuration or knows what could be wrong? I still have some days left to play with it, before this box gets shipped to the customer. This looks very, very similar to what I had once, on similar hardware (4x Xeon 7xxx, SuperMicro). I didn't find a solution and didn't bother since the box isn't intended for FreeBSD. I did find (by accident) a curious workaround: I booted Linux (I used Ubuntu 8.04 amd64 LiveCD - just to boot it, without installing), then rebooted and booted FreeBSD - worked every time, but it's obviously not a long-term solution. If you can also verify that this solves the problem, then someone might work with you to produce a patch. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:54:41PM +, Andrew Hotlab wrote: Hi to all. I've finally convinced my IT manager to replace a MSFT Windows Server Virtual Server host with a FreeBSD 7 jail host. Obviously, before proposing this change I checked that our hardware was supported by the FreeBSD platform, but as soon as I boot the FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE/amd64 CD-ROM the systems hangs! Do you see any improvement using a 7.0-STABLE snapshot? ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200808/ -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0
No improvement. I've just tried the 7.0-STABLE-200807-amd64 snapshot, that behaves like the 7.0-RELEASE, stopping at the same step. Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:24:18 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0 On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:54:41PM +, Andrew Hotlab wrote: Hi to all. I've finally convinced my IT manager to replace a MSFT Windows Server Virtual Server host with a FreeBSD 7 jail host. Obviously, before proposing this change I checked that our hardware was supported by the FreeBSD platform, but as soon as I boot the FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE/amd64 CD-ROM the systems hangs! Do you see any improvement using a 7.0-STABLE snapshot? ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200808/ -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _ Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-ussource=wlmailtagline___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with freebsd with Vista Premium
Hi guys How it going i'm downloading the freebsd software i'm not sure if it's suitable for my Operating System my Os is Vista Premium Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80ghz 1.00 GB RAM Intel(R) 82945G Express chipset family System Type 32 Bit Operating System i'm not sure if i am in the right area FTP directory /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0 at ftp.au.freebsd.org To view this FTP site in Windows Explorer, click Page, and then click Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer. Up to higher level directory02/25/2008 12:34AM 35,276,800 7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso 02/25/2008 12:35AM534,177,792 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 02/25/2008 12:35AM728,487,936 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso 02/25/2008 12:36AM368,592,896 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc3.iso 02/25/2008 12:37AM248,350,720 7.0-RELEASE-i386-docs.iso 02/25/2008 12:38AM224,655,360 7.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso 02/25/2008 12:38AM411 CHECKSUM.MD5 02/25/2008 12:40AM621 CHECKSUM.SHA256 do i need to download all of this Michael Wright _ Shout your Messenger buddies to the movies http://www.livelife.ninemsn.com.au/compIntro.aspx?compId=4590 ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with freebsd with Vista Premium
you will need to download the cd1-iso and burn it to a cd freebsd is an operating system, it runs on top of the hardware. not on top of vista. Dean Michael James Wright wrote: Hi guys How it going i'm downloading the freebsd software i'm not sure if it's suitable for my Operating System my Os is Vista Premium Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80ghz 1.00 GB RAM Intel(R) 82945G Express chipset family System Type 32 Bit Operating System i'm not sure if i am in the right area FTP directory /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0 at ftp.au.freebsd.org To view this FTP site in Windows Explorer, click Page, and then click Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer. Up to higher level directory02/25/2008 12:34AM 35,276,800 7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso 02/25/2008 12:35AM534,177,792 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 02/25/2008 12:35AM728,487,936 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso 02/25/2008 12:36AM368,592,896 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc3.iso 02/25/2008 12:37AM248,350,720 7.0-RELEASE-i386-docs.iso 02/25/2008 12:38AM224,655,360 7.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso 02/25/2008 12:38AM411 CHECKSUM.MD5 02/25/2008 12:40AM621 CHECKSUM.SHA256 do i need to download all of this Michael Wright _ Shout your Messenger buddies to the movies http://www.livelife.ninemsn.com.au/compIntro.aspx?compId=4590 ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://fragfest.com.au ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
