Re: any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-13 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:45:15PM +0100, Jens Fallesen wrote: > The primary NICs are Broadcom, the secondary ones are Nvidia as part of > the chipset (FreeBSD does not recognise those). I've been running the "nfe" driver with the "ciphy" patch for probably greater than six months on my NVidia nF

Re: any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-09 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jens Fallesen wrote: One issue I have is that the embedded management software can run on NIC 1 only. And once FreeBSD detects this, the embedded management software is disabled. Does anyone know of a way to make FreeBSD detect NIC 0 only? Did you spring for t

Re: any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-09 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Thomas Hurst wrote: Also, if anyone knows which ethernet ports they put in that'd be helpful. I'd avoid them if they had broadcom chips :-( 2 nVidia nForce nve(4)'s and 2 Intel Pro/1000 em(4)'s. Quite a step back from the quad em(4)'s in !M2's, but 2 usable NIC's

Re: any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Vivek Khera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new "M2" variants of > sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have three X4100 original versions that > works stunningly well (but I don't use the internal disks) with > FreeBSD 6.1. I was just curious how the new o

Re: any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-08 Thread Jens Fallesen
Vivek Khera wrote: Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new "M2" variants of sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have 6.2 running smoothly on three X2100 M2 units. The primary NICs are Broadcom, the secondary ones are Nvidia as part of the chipset (FreeBSD does not recognise those).

Re: any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-08 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jens Fallesen wrote: One issue I have is that the embedded management software can run on NIC 1 only. And once FreeBSD detects this, the embedded management software is disabled. Does anyone know of a way to make FreeBSD detect NIC 0 only? what about something

Re: any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-08 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jens Fallesen wrote: Another funny thing is that the embedded management software works under MSIE only. Not exactly what I would expect from Sun. :-) ew gross. the description of the LOM on the X2100 claims the functionality is the same as the ILOM on the 4100

Re: any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-08 Thread Andras Gót
Hi, We'are using an x2100m2 with FreeBSD6.2. On the ethernet side, the x2100m2 has two bge iface. On the original x2100 the bge iface works fine for me. On the M2 x2100 try ONLY FreeBSD 6.2, because 6.1 will be terribly slow. The x2100m2 has two sata2 disk bays, where you can insert almost an

any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-08 Thread Vivek Khera
Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new "M2" variants of sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have three X4100 original versions that works stunningly well (but I don't use the internal disks) with FreeBSD 6.1. I was just curious how the new ones work, and the X2100 seems to fit the b