From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 10:01:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7EB037B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:01:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0044243F3F for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:01:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from landgren.net (81-80-147-206.bpinet.com [81.80.147.206]) by sferics.mongueurs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3FBADE8 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:01:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E81F301.3090906@landgren.net> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:35:45 +0100 From: David Landgren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <3E81C40D.7020701@landgren.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-23.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Re: bge network driver not loaded on a HP (Compaq) Proliant DL380 G3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:01:49 -0000 Nicolas Kowalski wrote: >David Landgren writes: > > >>I am in the process of installing FreeBSD 4.7 on an HP Proliant DL380 >>G3. At the moment I am blocked by the fact that the kernel does not >>recognise the network card (or rather, does not load the bge driver). >> >> > >I faced the same problem with a ML370 G3. My ugly workaround was to >plug in this machine another - well recognized - network card. I used >an Intel EtherExpressPro10/100 (fxp) for this. > > Just for closure's sake on the list, here's what I did. As I was loading the 4.8-RC2 iso, playing around with this a bit more I seemed really close to success. In /boot/loader.conf I added miibus_load="YES" if_bge_load="YES" The drivers load correctly; I can see them when I run 'kldstat'. What I seem to be missing, though, is an explicit way of creating bge0 and bge1. I tried adding ifconfig_bge0="inet a.b.c.d netmask 255.255.255.0" in rc.conf, but it still failed to create the interface. After futzing around reading rc and rc.network, the download finished. I burnt the CD, booted it, and opening the emergency holographic shell on vty4, I saw that bge0 and bge1 existed. I'd rather not have to put an RC2 of anything into production, but I'll keep my fingers crossed. The other alternative was to install redhat 7.3 :o( David