Is there anyone successfully running freebsd on a dell poweredge 1950?

[Sam Eaton]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:44:02PM +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> 
> I just tested some things this afternoon, and copying 50GB of data
> over the network (rsync-over-ssh) worked fine: nothing special in the
> dmesg, beside the expected:
>  pid 1511 (rsync), uid 1001 inumber 424511 on /home: filesystem full

Yup, it's UDP NFS that stuffs it for me.

> > I was using a completely stock SMP kernel config.
> 
> ah, then you should try the patched if_bce.c sent by Paul Saab a few
> weeks ago (19Jul2006):  http://yogurt.org/FreeBSD/if_bce.c   
> 
> This solved all my networking issues...

Sorry, I should have made it more clear.  I was running a stock SMP
kernel *config* which was what you asked.  I'd already patched the
if_bce.c to the version you're pointing to there, and then later
upgraded to the -STABLE with it included.  It helped with a lot of other
errors from the network card, but didn't solve this one.

> Fortunately the other boxes are HP DL380 G5, which seem to work fine
> with freebsd (until now :-)).

At least one of the HP boxes seems to have exactly the same bce network
card in from my read of the specs.  Does that one use the same driver
but work fine?  Or have you not tried the same NFS test as we have?

Thanks,

Sam.
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