Intel(R) Server Board SE7320VP2 Email Support Request

[jaco at coocoo.za.net]

Luis,

Thank you for your reply.

Luis, my problem is this: The FreeBSD community is looking for a driver to
support this single piece of hardware that is made by Marvell, namely
Marvell Yukon 88E8050 NIC.

What I would like from Intel is to get Marvell to write a driver for this
piece of hardware that is used on the Intel board.

I have already read the compatibility lists and the works.

That is why I contacted support -- to hear if it would be possible to
actually get the manufacturers of the hardware that is being used on Intel
boards to supply drivers for FreeBSD as well.

As far as I know, the driver already exists within Marvell (ie, the driver
is ALREADY written) and with enough people and board manufacturers
requesting the driver it will actually be released.

I look forward to hear from Intel. ;)

Thank you!
---Jaco

> Hello Jaco,
>
> Thank you for contacting Intel(R) Technical Support.
>
> FreeBSD* has not been validated on the Intel(R) Server Board SE7320VP2.
> Because of this we do not have drivers, or best-known methods for
> supporting this operating system.
>
> Please see the following website for more compatibility information:
>
>   http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/cs-012672.htm
>
> You could try to contact the FreeBSD* developer communities on the
> Internet too see if any drivers for this device are available.
>
> Regards,
>
> Luis Pablo S.
> Intel(R) Technical Support
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> <===== Received from jaco at coocoo.za.net on 2005-06-27-17.14.25.000000
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>
> Hi,
>
> I recently bought a server with this board.
> We use FreeBSD as Operating system for all our servers.
>
> On this board, the second NIC is a Marvell Yukon 88E8050.
> Unfortunately no driver for FreeBSD exist for this NIC.
>
> Can you guys please arrange that either a source or binary driver is
> released for this NIC that will support the FreeBSD 4 / FreeBSD 5.X range
> of Operating Systems.
>
> A lot of people are actually using FreeBSD as an operating system and can
> not use this board's full functionality as there is a lack of device
> drivers for this NIC.
>
> This driver is really much needed by the FreeBSD community.
>
> OS: FreeBSD 5-STABLE (5.4 as of this writing)
>
> Thank you in advance!
> Best regards.
> ---Jaco
> ##ERIGNORE##
> First_name: Jaco
> Last_name: van Tonder
> Email: jaco at coocoo.za.net
> Customer_type: End User
> Product: Intel(R) Server Board SE7320VP2
> Product_id: 1856
> OS: BSD*
> Survey_opt_in: Yes
> Bios_version:
> BMC:
> HSC:
> FRUSDR:
> chassis_selection: None
> raid_selection: None
> server_mgmt_selection: None
> Processor_speed:
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> sSpec:
> Issue: Hi,
>
> I recently bought a server with this board.
> We use FreeBSD as Operating system for all our servers.
>
> On this board, the second NIC is a Marvell Yukon 88E8050.
> Unfortunately no driver for FreeBSD exist for this NIC.
>
> Can you guys please arrange that either a source or binary driver is
> released for this NIC that will support the FreeBSD 4 / FreeBSD 5.X range
> of Operating Systems.
>
> A lot of people are actually using FreeBSD as an operating system and can
> not use this board's full functionality as there is a lack of device
> drivers for this NIC.
>
> This driver is really much needed by the FreeBSD community.
>
> OS: FreeBSD 5-STABLE (5.4 as of this writing)
>
> Thank you in advance!
> Best regards.
> ---Jaco
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