Peter Feger <magick...@gmail.com> wrote in <CAD_3y4wAPp+8ZSveB6mbOF7M1Ne-zAvz4Uf=vv9quohuu23...@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@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
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