DL 120 G5 Freebsd 5.4

[kama]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, b-boy wrote:

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> kama-4 wrote:
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> > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Rainer Duffner wrote:
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> >> b-boy schrieb:
> >> > Hi all
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> >> > Has anyone attempted to run 5.4 on a dl120 g5 ? My client wants to
> >> order
> >> > this box but I'm not sure if 5.4 has the drivers to run on it.
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> >> > Regards
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> >> Is there a business reason why he wants to run 5.4, of all things?
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> >> 5.4 is EOL - I'm not sure it has support for the ICH that this board
> >> uses.
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> > Im not sure, but I think you dont have support for the NIC. The DL380G5
> > uses bce instead of bge. I think you need to go up to 6.3 to get bce in
> > the system.
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> > Try running FreeBSD 7.1 w COMPAT5 installed if its a binary that needs
> > FreeBSD 5.4.
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> > /Bjorn
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> Ok, I just had a chat with my dev guy and he said we could also look at
> installing 6.2 but I think that will still not work...

"The bce device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 6.1."

So if the chipset is supported it should work.

We run 6.0 on a DL380G5 w P400 SA-card, but with another NIC. So I think
that it will work.

/Bjorn