5.2 on DELL m/c's

[Eric Anderson]

Muthu_T at Dell.com wrote:

>I had installed 5.2 Release on couple of Dell machines.
>It works fine on all the systems. (but some dhclient error messages
>thrown on console often).
>
>In older machines (like PE4300) it works only if we disabled ACPI.
>But in new machines (PE1750, PE1650) it works fine by default(with
>ACPI).
>
>All RAID and BroadCom network drivers are working fine.
>
>So if anything needs to be tested on Dell Machines please let me know.
>I will do it in my spare time.
>
>But I cannot install 5.2 via USB CDROM. Anybody have any ideas?
>  
>

Make sure PERC boards work flawlessly - I had some issues with 5.1, but 
I think they're gone now.  Broadcom gige nics seemed to "flop" up and 
down under heavy load on my 6450's under 5.1.   Those are the only 
things I didn't like about FreeBSD+Dell..

Eric



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