Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:26:27 +1000 From: Antony Mawer <fbsd-questions@mawer.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: William <willay@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Message-ID: <44A4B603.1070403@mawer.org> In-Reply-To: <002701c6969e$7b4ed180$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <a24358fb0605050239y1550f5d1o6bc461b4d3cc9472@mail.gmail.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEOHFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <a24358fb0606210116q3f019acdm40fb10224fd433b8@mail.gmail.com> <000a01c69699$665c1030$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <a24358fb0606230108r7e7a3fa3l4909cec6da8a2792@mail.gmail.com> <002701c6969e$7b4ed180$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
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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
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