FreeBSD 6.2 on Dell PowerEdge SC440

[Lars Kristiansen]

--On Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:16:27 -0400 Rob <r17fbsd at xxiii.com> wrote:

> Lars Kristiansen wrote:
>> Dominik Zalewski skrev:
>>> I'm thinking of buying Dell PowerEdge SC440 for a small webserver.
>>> Anyone using this server with FreeBSD 6.2 -release ? Any issues? Some
>>
>> 6.2-release does not have a driver for the built-in network interface.
>> So you probarly want to order it with extra gigabit nic.
>
> I have last year's model, the SC430.  I don't know what they changed but
> the 440's specs still say "integrated Boardcom gigabit NIC".  The bge
> driver in 6.x has worked just fine for me.  You do need to either
> custom-compile it in, or load it at boot time.  See the man pages:

Afaik, this particulare integrated nic might be supported in freebsd-stable 
but not yet in -release.
I did however order a broadcom extra nic with it, which worked "out of the 
box".
Here is some output from 'pciconf -lv', first the pci-card, then the 
integrated.

bge0 at pci4:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x165914e4 chip=0x165914e4 rev=0x21 
hdr=0x00    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device   = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet
none1 at pci5:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01df1028 chip=0x167a14e4 rev=0x02 
hdr=0x00    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device   = 'BCM5754 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet


Regards,
 Lars

>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=
> FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html
>
> Actually, looking at the 6.2-release i386/GENERIC kernel conf, it's
> compiled in by default.
>
> The machine has been a very reliable "bare bones" server for us;  just
> what I wanted.  I think the system board is an Intel-OEM.  Intel SATA on
> it has been reliable.  The case is "BTX" -- a new standard pushed by Dell
> and some other Tier One manufacturers.
>
>   -RW