From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 30 06:26:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 0A2E816A546 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:26:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from willay@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD3D43DAD for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:53:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willay@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so744598uge for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:53:34 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=C7squiEgiBfa7ZQnetAwbZ/scczXoBU6+mIIla/lOw6inBBg3tzuijGo6LUMbONeayC6Vaw84aB7OaBAo02q9YMB+b/92gJtdcYldmef863iUdLxnH0JzI/gV1No1UkIThmj/zItFchKcoAdTDjbXQLmLiatGI0roIsSQy4bDB8= Received: by 10.66.224.19 with SMTP id w19mr965903ugg; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.29.5 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:53:34 +0100 From: William To: "Antony Mawer" In-Reply-To: <44A4B603.1070403@mawer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <000a01c69699$665c1030$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <002701c6969e$7b4ed180$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <44A4B603.1070403@mawer.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:26:48 -0000 Thanks for the email Antony, I'm awaiting delivery of the server so I might have to order an intel card sharpish. What can I do the server+fbsd 6.x to prove the lock up? Regards, Will On 30/06/06, Antony Mawer wrote: > On 23/06/2006 6:24 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Out of the box the DL 320 G4 ships with a riser card that has 2 pci express > > slots. At least that is what they are supposed to be, we haven't tried > > them. > ... > > If you only do the pci express then the adapter you want is the Intel > > Pro 1000 PT either the single port or the dual port, and make sure > > it is the "server adapter" not the "desktop adapter" (the models carry > > the same model number but different descriptions, which is infuriating) > > We ended up in this same situation, and went down the Intel PCI express > NIC path (Intel Pro/1000PT). Be advised that, at this stage, the driver > in both 6.0 and 6.1 -RELEASE does not support this card, but support is > present in 7-CURRENT. > > That being said, with the official Intel driver (v6.0.5, not sure if > it's released yet), I was able to replace the standard em driver in 6.0, > build a new kernel, and bring the server up and survive some > pre-deployment load testing without any hiccups. > > Be aware that while the riser card has two PCI Express slots, one is > half-height, and the Intel NICs (at least the one we received) are a > full card. > > The onboard Broadcom NICs weren't worth the PCBs they were printed on in > terms of stability -- we were seeing the same hard lockups as Ted and > didn't have the luxury of time to spend fiddling with it!! From what I > gather from Ted's previous investigations, there's various work-arounds > in the Linux driver that work around some shortcomings in the hardware > itself... > > Regards > Antony >