4.8-RELEASE: Gigabit Ethernet support on Dell PowerEdge 1750

2003-10-22 Thread Andrew Cleland 
Hello all,

I'm trying and failing to get 4.8-RELEASE to recognise the two Broadcom
5704C based NICs on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server.

I've recompiled the kernel with 'device miibus' and 'device bge' with no
problems, and the system boots OK, but the two NICs appear as
unrecognised devices when booting, and no sign of them appearing as
network interfaces...

From googling around it looks like they work fine with 5.1, but I don't
really want to run 5.1 on a production server yet.

Any ideas?

AC.

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Re: 4.8-RELEASE: Gigabit Ethernet support on Dell PowerEdge 1750

2003-10-22 Thread Konrad Heuer 

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Andrew Cleland wrote:

 I'm trying and failing to get 4.8-RELEASE to recognise the two Broadcom
 5704C based NICs on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server.

 I've recompiled the kernel with 'device miibus' and 'device bge' with no
 problems, and the system boots OK, but the two NICs appear as
 unrecognised devices when booting, and no sign of them appearing as
 network interfaces...

 From googling around it looks like they work fine with 5.1, but I don't
 really want to run 5.1 on a production server yet.

I've three DELL PE 2650 running with 4.8-R; the Broadcom cards work fine.
While booting, the kernel reports:

bge0: Ethernet address: 00:10:18:02:43:07
miibus0: MII bus on bge0
brgphy0: BCM5701 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto

The kernel config file contains nothing but

# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these
NICs!
device  miibus  # MII bus support
device  bge # Broadcom BCM570x (``Tigon III'')

regarding the NICs.

Are you sure the NICs aren't disabled in the BIOS setup? Sorry for using
the word 'Linux', but I'm not fanatic. Maybe you could try to boot a Linux
kernel from CD (Knoppix or so?) and watch what happens?

Regards

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Re: 4.8-RELEASE: Gigabit Ethernet support on Dell PowerEdge 1750

2003-10-22 Thread Olaf Hoyer 
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Andrew Cleland wrote:

 Hello all,

 I'm trying and failing to get 4.8-RELEASE to recognise the two Broadcom
 5704C based NICs on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server.

Hi!

Known issue, the 5704C PCI ID wasn't known to the bge-driver around
4.8-R.

take a FreeBSD 4.9-PRE, there it will work.

Or install a 4.8-R, and update it somehow (put in a third NIC, cvsup,
and make world, or copy over the /usr/src from another machine via CD)

HTH
Olaf


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