RE: unrecognized hardware with 5.1 and Dell 1750
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jackie S. McCracken wrote: > Kent and Olaf, thank you for the suggestions! I believe that the root of > the problem is the ServerWorks GC LE chipset. Hi! Well, I just installed a 1750 a few weeks before under 4.9-prerelease, running fine. I forgot to mention that the > system reports during initial startup that the Host to PCI bridge chipset > is unrecognized which leads me to believe that it cannot see the NIC > interface at all which is integrated into the motherboard. It is initialized ok, at least for 4.9. The PCI ID is unknown to FreeBSD, so it cannot display the right name in dmesg, but anything else works. This is one of > Dell's newest servers and I'm feeling that the hardware is just newer than > what FreeBSD supports and I need some help working out the issue. Well, not really. It is fully supported by FreeBSD 4.9-R, 5.1R is a bit older. Basically the drivers will work, but due to the fact that they do not know the PCI ID of the onboard NIC, the chips are not initialized. I have a > Dell 1650 (recently discontinued model) running just great at the moment > and I'm checking to see what the differences in the motherboards are other > than the 1750 is about twice as much server speed wise and will supply that > info shortly. Any help would be extremely appreciated, I am not a > programmer but a test engineer by trade and I want to see FreeBSD take its > rightful place as THE open source operating system and I'm pushing it as > hard as I can to our customers. BTW: For production environment, 4-stable is recommended... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: unrecognized hardware with 5.1 and Dell 1750
Kent and Olaf, thank you for the suggestions! I believe that the root of the problem is the ServerWorks GC LE chipset. I forgot to mention that the system reports during initial startup that the Host to PCI bridge chipset is unrecognized which leads me to believe that it cannot see the NIC interface at all which is integrated into the motherboard. This is one of Dell's newest servers and I'm feeling that the hardware is just newer than what FreeBSD supports and I need some help working out the issue. I have a Dell 1650 (recently discontinued model) running just great at the moment and I'm checking to see what the differences in the motherboards are other than the 1750 is about twice as much server speed wise and will supply that info shortly. Any help would be extremely appreciated, I am not a programmer but a test engineer by trade and I want to see FreeBSD take its rightful place as THE open source operating system and I'm pushing it as hard as I can to our customers. Jackie --- --- > On Sunday 16 November 2003 08:17 am, Jackie S. McCracken wrote: > > I'm trying to build a Dell 1750 with 5.1. After the kern and mfsroot > > floppies have loaded and the system starts to come up it reports an > > unrecognized chip set then once I try to run the ftp utility to load a > > minimum configuration it cannot see the NIC interface i.e. it's not part of > > the choices for the download. The system came with a driver disk for the > > Broadcom NIC which is a 5704 gigabit interface but it only has drivers for > > Windows, Linux, and some other OS's but nothing for FreeBSD. According to > > the Dell info it is a ServerWorks GC LE Chipset with 2:1 memory > > interleaving. How do I get the system to run? I need to get it up and > > running ASAP. HI! The driver for the bge 5704 was introduced shorty before 4.9-Prerelease. So you have to upgrade your sources, so that basically the bge driver knows about the particular different pci id of the 5704 chip. I had 4-stable on it, so I installed 4.8-R, put in a 3com 905 (which was lying around, any 3.3V-Card will do) and cvsup'ed to 4.9-pre. After make world anything was fine, and i pulled the 3com. I don't know about 5.1, if tracking releng_51 will do the job. Or you take the relevant pieces of the bge driver from -current, merge them into your sources for 5.1. I never did it, so YMMV. HTH Olaf ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
