Broadcom NetXtreme bcm5720 in the 9.1 beta
Sean Bruno
seanbru at yahoo-inc.com
Tue Jul 24 23:10:11 UTC 2012
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 12:16 -0700, Peter Feger wrote:
> I just got done installing FreeBSD-9.0 on a Dell R720. I can tell you
> that none of the broadcom products will work. There is no driver that
> I have been able to find. I wound up having to replace them with
> Intel nics. I used the i350 quad-port 1G and the x520 for 10G Fiber.
>
Confirmed over here at Yahoo. The intel replacement board seems to just
work with stable/9 for me.
> I also had an issue with the perc h710 raid controller. ( it uses the
> LSI SAS 2208 controller chip ) The FreeBSD hardware compatibility list
> shows that it uses the mtp driver which is incorrect.
>
Yeah, we should get that corrected. This card is supported by stable/9
mfi(4)
Sean
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