Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4


It is fine as long as you buy a 64 bit pc-express intel ethernet card.

The patch I created makes the broadcom chip work without panicing
the kernel

Unfortunately the chip periodically issues a timeout error message and
momentararily downs the interface.

There are a number of complaints in the PR database about this
happening with this driver, with different models of the broadcom
chip in different machines.

Ted

----- Original Message -----
From: "William" <willay@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4


Hello again,

Sorry to dig this up again. I'm in the position to order the server
now and the DL320 is within our price range. Is everyone still having
an enjoyable experience running FreeBSD on the DL3XX G4 range?

Regards,

William

On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, for some reason the first nic locks the system up when you try to
bring it up.

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: William [mailto:willay@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 2:39 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Cc: freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4


Hi Ted,

Great news! but as per your patch you can only use the second nic?

Cheers,

Will

On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi William,

I was able to create a patch that fixed the problem, see
here:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=96806

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of William
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:41 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Cc: freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4


The chances of getting it returned because fbsd doesnt work are
very small! :(

On 03/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1
when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I
haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it
if it doesen't work.

Ted


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of William
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:10 AM
To: freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4


What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the
dl320 g4? I've
had a quote back on that model so could be near to
actually getting
some hardware for once :)

On 30/04/06, No@SPAM@mgEDV.net <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and
they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok).
but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's
a newer/different chipset in it.
we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches
monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no
problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than
26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving
more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only).

c ya ;-)


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