RE: dell broadcom nic & fbsd 7.1 AMD64
Have you tried the bge drivers instead of bce? I have a Dell PowerEdge 2650 running 7.1 and it is using the bge drivers with no problems, though it is the running i386 and not amd64. Thanks, Dean Weimer Network Administrator Orscheln Management Co -Original Message- Message: 11 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 06:06:26 -0500 From: Len Conrad Subject: RE: dell broadcom nic & fbsd 7.1 AMD64 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090519124915.sm08...@w500.go2france.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> ifconfig_bce0="inet 10.2.17.8 netmask 255.255.0.0" >> >>>and output from: >>> >>> dhclient bc0 >> >> I ran that on a local machine and it hung up the interface, requiring a warm >> reboot. >> >> I'll see what happens with my client's machine. >> > >I assume you substituted the correct interface name? (bce0 in place of bc0) yes, sorry, bc was my mistake, rc.conf has/always had ifconfig_bce0="inet 10.2.17.8 netmask 255.255.0.0" We are thinking about dropping back to 7.1 i386 (and losing the 600 MB RAM) or up to 7.2. We have several Dell 1950/2950 with fbsd 7.0 and 7.1 that have had no problems with Broadcom. Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: dell broadcom nic & fbsd 7.1 AMD64
>> ifconfig_bce0="inet 10.2.17.8 netmask 255.255.0.0" >> >>>and output from: >>> >>> dhclient bc0 >> >> I ran that on a local machine and it hung up the interface, requiring a warm >> reboot. >> >> I'll see what happens with my client's machine. >> > >I assume you substituted the correct interface name? (bce0 in place of bc0) yes, sorry, bc was my mistake, rc.conf has/always had ifconfig_bce0="inet 10.2.17.8 netmask 255.255.0.0" We are thinking about dropping back to 7.1 i386 (and losing the 600 MB RAM) or up to 7.2. We have several Dell 1950/2950 with fbsd 7.0 and 7.1 that have had no problems with Broadcom. Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: dell broadcom nic & fbsd 7.1 AMD64
-Original Message- From: Glen Barber [mailto:glen.j.bar...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 May 2009 22:58 To: lcon...@go2france.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dell broadcom nic & fbsd 7.1 AMD64 On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Len Conrad wrote: >> >>Could you paste the output of the following: >> >> cat /etc/rc.conf | grep bc0 > > sorry, is bce not bc, Was going to be my next suggestion... I couldn't find 'bc' in GENERIC for amd64. > > ifconfig_bce0="inet 10.2.17.8 netmask 255.255.0.0" > >>and output from: >> >> dhclient bc0 > > I ran that on a local machine and it hung up the interface, requiring a warm > reboot. > > I'll see what happens with my client's machine. > I assume you substituted the correct interface name? (bce0 in place of bc0) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Just took a quick peek at my pfsense machine hp D530 USDT which has a broadcom gigabit NIC, phpsysinfo reports bge0: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x3003. Might be worth trying that driver. Regards Graeme ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: dell broadcom nic & fbsd 7.1 AMD64
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Len Conrad wrote: >> >>Could you paste the output of the following: >> >> cat /etc/rc.conf | grep bc0 > > sorry, is bce not bc, Was going to be my next suggestion... I couldn't find 'bc' in GENERIC for amd64. > > ifconfig_bce0="inet 10.2.17.8 netmask 255.255.0.0" > >>and output from: >> >> dhclient bc0 > > I ran that on a local machine and it hung up the interface, requiring a warm > reboot. > > I'll see what happens with my client's machine. > I assume you substituted the correct interface name? (bce0 in place of bc0) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: dell broadcom nic & fbsd 7.1 AMD64
>> Dell PE1950 III >> >> frebsd 7.1 AMD64 (to get support of full 4 GB RAM) >> >> After fresh 7.1 install, and boot, ifconfig shows bc0 active and 1000 >> Mb/sec, but cannot ping anything. >> >> replaced cables, tried the other bc nic, nothing. >> >> Linux in 3 other same machines works fine. >> > >Could you paste the output of the following: > > cat /etc/rc.conf | grep bc0 sorry, is bce not bc, ifconfig_bce0="inet 10.2.17.8 netmask 255.255.0.0" >and output from: > > dhclient bc0 I ran that on a local machine and it hung up the interface, requiring a warm reboot. I'll see what happens with my client's machine. Len > > >-- >Glen Barber > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: dell broadcom nic & fbsd 7.1 AMD64
Hi, Len On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Len Conrad wrote: > Dell PE1950 III > > frebsd 7.1 AMD64 (to get support of full 4 GB RAM) > > After fresh 7.1 install, and boot, ifconfig shows bc0 active and 1000 Mb/sec, > but cannot ping anything. > > replaced cables, tried the other bc nic, nothing. > > Linux in 3 other same machines works fine. > Could you paste the output of the following: cat /etc/rc.conf | grep bc0 and output from: dhclient bc0 -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
