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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