Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:49:56 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: seanbru@yahoo-inc.com Cc: magickal1@gmail.com, jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXtreme bcm5720 in the 9.1 beta Message-ID: <20120802.104956.514573454138222478.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1343243969.2727.2.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> References: <CAD_3y4wAPp%2B8ZSveB6mbOF7M1Ne-zAvz4Uf=VV9quohUU23xHA@mail.gmail.com> <20120725.104632.310862314390082195.hrs@allbsd.org> <1343243969.2727.2.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com>
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----Security_Multipart(Thu_Aug__2_10_49_56_2012_938)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> wrote in <1343243969.2727.2.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com>: se> On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 18:46 -0700, Hiroki Sato wrote: se> > Peter Feger <magickal1@gmail.com> wrote se> > in <CAD_3y4wAPp+8ZSveB6mbOF7M1Ne-zAvz4Uf=VV9quohUU23xHA@mail.gmail.com>: se> > se> > ma> I just got done installing FreeBSD-9.0 on a Dell R720. I can tell you se> > ma> that none of the broadcom products will work. There is no driver that se> > ma> I have been able to find. I wound up having to replace them with se> > ma> Intel nics. I used the i350 quad-port 1G and the x520 for 10G Fiber. se> > se> > I recently bought a Dell R420 which had BCM 5720 as the LOM. The se> > output of pciconf was the following: se> > se> > bge0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x04f81028 chip=0x165f14e4 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 se> > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' se> > device = 'NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe' se> > class = network se> > subclass = ethernet se> > se> > On 9.1-PRERELEASE as of Jul 23, it was recognized but did not work se> > properly first (the link-status went back and forth between up and se> > down). However, after setting dev.bge.0.msi=0 it worked. I am not se> > sure of whether it had decent communication speed or not, but I saw se> > it worked with 50MB/s or so at least. se> > se> > IPMI over LAN did not work even if hw.bge.allow_asf was set to 1. se> > se> > -- Hiroki se> se> se> se> For the r420/320 ... grab Pyun's latest updates and give it a whirl. se> They seem to work for us at yahoo: se> se> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/bge/ Thanks! I am testing his patches... -- Hiroki ----Security_Multipart(Thu_Aug__2_10_49_56_2012_938)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAlAZ3MQACgkQTyzT2CeTzy2v1QCeJl7L1+lhjObu+shwOiStWubG 0s0AoKUHAopd2ovIBXQ4xkxXcqrpKumD =+gB9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Thu_Aug__2_10_49_56_2012_938)----
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