Broadcom NetXtreme bcm5720 in the 9.1 beta

[Sean Bruno]

On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 18:46 -0700, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Peter Feger <magickal1 at gmail.com> wrote
>   in <CAD_3y4wAPp+8ZSveB6mbOF7M1Ne-zAvz4Uf=VV9quohUU23xHA at mail.gmail.com>:
> 
> ma> I just got done installing FreeBSD-9.0 on a Dell R720.  I can tell you
> ma> that none of the broadcom products will work.  There is no driver that
> ma> I have been able to find.  I wound up having to replace them with
> ma> Intel nics.  I used the i350 quad-port 1G  and the x520 for 10G Fiber.
> 
>  I recently bought a Dell R420 which had BCM 5720 as the LOM.  The
>  output of pciconf was the following:
> 
> bge0 at pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x04f81028 chip=0x165f14e4 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>     device     = 'NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> 
>  On 9.1-PRERELEASE as of Jul 23, it was recognized but did not work
>  properly first (the link-status went back and forth between up and
>  down).  However, after setting dev.bge.0.msi=0 it worked.  I am not
>  sure of whether it had decent communication speed or not, but I saw
>  it worked with 50MB/s or so at least.
> 
>  IPMI over LAN did not work even if hw.bge.allow_asf was set to 1.
> 
> -- Hiroki



For the r420/320 ... grab Pyun's latest updates and give it a whirl.
They seem to work for us at yahoo:

http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/bge/

Sean