yes, it is only the NIC's I want/need. I have an Intel card in it right
now, but its just a single port the onboard NIC's would be a nice to have.
The raid worked out of the box for me, please remember 9.1beta thou.
Thanks
On 25/07/12 05:16, 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.
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.
Below are the things I did to get them both to work
Track STABLE
csup /root/stable-supfile ; cd /usr/src/ && make buildworld
Time to get the new driver source code. The SVN checkout link is here,
http://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/head_mfi/sys/dev/mfi/
svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/head_mfi/sys/dev/mfi/
/usr/local/src/mfi/ ; cp *.* /usr/src/sys/dev/mfi/
The new code actually added 2 new C files, so we need to add them to
one of the included make files so when we build our kernel, it will
see these new files.
Fire up vi and edit /usr/src/sys/conf/files. Find the lines with the
mfi driver files by searching for mfi, and add the following lines
after those:
dev/mfi/mfi_syspd.c optional mfi
dev/mfi/mfi_tbolt.c optional mfi
Now, since we are using stable source files, we will get the updated
mpt driver to get around the bug were this driver incorrectly tries to
attach to our RAID controller. To be safe we also edit the GENERIC
kernel config file and comment out the mpt driver altogether.
The x520 uses the 82599 drivers. they too had a few small issues
The ixgbe-2.4.4 driver had this error
In file included from ixgbe_type.h:38,
from ixgbe_api.h:38,
from ixgbe.h:96,
from ixgbe.c:40:
ixgbe_osdep.h:104: error: conflicting types for 'bool'
@/sys/types.h:271: error: previous declaration of 'bool' was here
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/local/src/ixgbe-2.4.4/src
I edited the /sys/types.h
#if __STDC_VERSION__ < 199901L && __GNUC__ < 3 &&
!defined(__INTEL_COMPILER)
typedef int _Bool;
#endif
-typedef _Bool bool;
+// typedef _Bool bool;
#endif /* !__bool_true_false_are_defined && !__cplusplus */
and
ixgbe_osdep.h
+#ifndef bool
typedef boolean_t bool;
+#endif
something buggy in the ipv6 support. My netowrk doesnt use it So i
commented out the #ifdef in ixgbe.c and the code that goes with it.
3332 /* #ifdef INET6
3333 * struct ip6_hdr *ip6;
3334 *
3335 * #endif
3336 */
3359 /*
3360 ** #ifdef INET6
3361 ** case ETHERTYPE_IPV6:
3362 ** if (mp->m_len < len + sizeof(struct ip6_hdr))
3363 ** return FALSE;
3364 ** ip6 = (struct ip6_hdr *)(mp->m_data + ehdrlen);
3365 ** XXX-BZ For now we do not pretend to support ext. hdrs.
3366 ** if (ip6->ip6_nxt != IPPROTO_TCP)
3367 ** return FALSE;
3368 ** ip_hlen = sizeof(struct ip6_hdr);
3369 ** th = (struct tcphdr *)((caddr_t)ip6 + ip_hlen);
3370 ** th->th_sum = in6_cksum_pseudo(ip6, 0, IPPROTO_TCP, 0);
3371 ** type_tucmd_mlhl |= IXGBE_ADVTXD_TUCMD_IPV6;
3372 ** break;
3373 ** #endif
3374 */
cd /usr/local/src/ixgbe/ ; svn co
http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/sys/dev/ixgbe/
/usr/local/src/ixgbe/ ; cp *.* /usr/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/
then edited the /usr/src/sys/conf/files and make sure that the
following lines are there
dev/ixgb/ixgb_hw.c optional ixgb
dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.c optional ixgbe inet \
compile-with "${NORMAL_C} -I$S/dev/ixgbe"
dev/ixgbe/ixv.c optional ixgbe inet \
compile-with "${NORMAL_C} -I$S/dev/ixgbe"
dev/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c optional ixgbe inet \
compile-with "${NORMAL_C} -I$S/dev/ixgbe"
dev/ixgbe/ixgbe_api.c optional ixgbe inet \
compile-with "${NORMAL_C} -I$S/dev/ixgbe"
dev/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c optional ixgbe inet \
compile-with "${NORMAL_C} -I$S/dev/ixgbe"
dev/ixgbe/ixgbe_mbx.c optional ixgbe inet \
compile-with "${NORMAL_C} -I$S/dev/ixgbe"
dev/ixgbe/ixgbe_vf.c optional ixgbe inet \
compile-with "${NORMAL_C} -I$S/dev/ixgbe"
dev/ixgbe/ixgbe_82598.c optional ixgbe inet \
compile-with "${NORMAL_C} -I$S/dev/ixgbe"
dev/ixgbe/ixgbe_82599.c optional ixgbe inet \
compile-with "${NORMAL_C} -I$S/dev/ixgbe"
dev/ixgbe/ixgbe_x540.c optional ixgbe inet \
compile-with "${NORMAL_C} -I$S/dev/ixgbe"
Built the kernel
cd /usr/src && make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
Make the release so I can get an .iso image with everything i need to
get those things working
cd /usr/src/release && make release
ISO file will be located here when completed
/usr/obj/usr/src/release/release.iso
From there I open the drac console and use the virtual media to mount
that iso and install FreeBSD-9.0 and both the RAID and Intel nics
work.
Best of Luck
Pete
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Jurgen Weber
<jurgen.we...@theiconic.com.au> wrote:
Team
I have a Dell PowerEdge R720xd, with the Broadcom NetXtreme bcm5720. I found
the following thread:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31769
I find I am unable to use the NIC's (there are 4 on the server). When we put
a cable into it we get a "watchdog timeout -- resetting" error, and the
machine will pause for 5 or so seconds. IP may or may not come up randomly.
eg. pings will work for 10 seconds and then it will pause and stop.
It is hard for me to get you some decent output because no networking works.
I need to get this puppy on the network, any suggestions? Will it be
resolved in RC1, when can I expect it?
Thanks
Jurgen
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