HP NC373i unsupported..?

Bert-Jan info at bert-jan.com
Thu Dec 31 16:06:44 UTC 2009


The nic is running fine so far.
Is there a test scenario to run to validate that it's really 
production-stable ?


Bert-Jan wrote:
> Replying to my own question.. I found the B0 version of this adapter 
> is intentionally disabled in the driver.
> I've commented out the case that catches the 5708_B0 and I'm 
> recompiling the kernel.
> As this server has run for years without problems I'm hoping the nic 
> will work just fine. Maybe it's disabled because someone else had 
> problems with it that I'm about to run into..
>
> Will keep you posted...
>
>
> Bert-Jan wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I just got a HP Proliant DL380 G5 and I've installed FreeBSD 8.0 on it.
>> The nic won't come up however.
>>
>> dmesg shows:
>>
>> bce0: <HP NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter (B0)> mem 
>> 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
>> bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(836): Unsupported controller 
>> revision (B0)!
>> device_attach: bce0 attach returned 19
>>
>> bce1: <HP NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter (B0)> mem 
>> 0xfa000000-0xfbffffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci5
>> bce1: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(836): Unsupported controller 
>> revision (B0)!
>> device_attach: bce0 attach returned 19
>>
>> pciconf -lv:
>>
>> bce0 at pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x7038103c 
>> chip=0x164c14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>>    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>    device     = 'Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 
>> (BCM5708)'
>>    class      = network
>>    subclass   = ethernet
>>
>> bce1 at pci0:5:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x7038103c 
>> chip=0x164c14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>>    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>    device     = 'Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 
>> (BCM5708)'
>>    class      = network
>>    subclass   = ethernet
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to fix this ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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