dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD

[Bill Moran]

In response to Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu>:

> --On September 29, 2006 2:31:03 PM -0400 Bill Moran 
> <wmoran at collaborativefusion.com> wrote:
> >
> > 3) We're having intermittent problems with the onboard NICs on these
> >    units.  I have some testing to do Monday to narrow the problem down,
> >    but for now, don't trust the onboard NICs to work reliably.
> 
> Bill, if those are the Broadcomm Extreme NICs (bce), you need to grab the 
> new version of the if_bce.c file.  It fixed the problems that I had with 
> the NICs.  There's a char inside the file that defines the version - you 
> need 0.9.6.  You've got 0.9.5, I'll bet.

Note that I just ran a buildworld over NFS with no problems, so it
seems as if all issues have been resolved in the 0.9.6 version.

Must have had something else going on during last week's tests.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.

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