On Wednesday 23 November 2005 20.58, you wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm just wondering if anyone knows anything about OpenBSD on a Dell
> Poweredge 850. List archives returned no hits, and google returned only
> a dmesg of the machine from FreeBSD
> (http://nycbug.org/?NAV=dmesgd&dmesgd_criteria=&dmesgid=700#700 for
> those interested).
>
> Dells seem relatively well supported, I'm mostly worried about the dual
> on-board NIC.
>
> Any light anyone could shed on compatibility would be great -- I'm
> making a case for using OpenBSD with this, which was purchased to be a
> firewall machine, instead of Microsoft and ISA server.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Peter L.
Why worry about the NIC:s that is the low cost part...
Most of what I can read on the Dell homepage (chipset and other built in
stuff) seems to be similar to Dell Tower 830. Here is a dmesg of my 830 if it
could be of any help. When I bought my 830 I also bought a Dual Intel PCI
Express NIC card with it from Dell. I added my own LSI-150-4 SATA cards after
as Dell continues to have only Adaptec cards available for SATA... As you see
my on board NIC is "Broadcom BCM5721" that works. Everything is included in
the dmesg below.
OpenBSD 3.8 (GENERIC) #138: Sat Sep 10 15:41:37 MDT 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.80 GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,CN
XT-ID
real mem = 536195072 (523628K)
avail mem = 482357248 (471052K)
using 4278 buffers containing 26910720 bytes (26280K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 10/12/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xffe90
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfb900/208 (11 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82801GB LPC" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #8 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x1000 0xc9000/0x1600 0xca800/0x2200
0xec000/0x4000!
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x2778 rev 0x00
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x2779 rev 0x00
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
ppb1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 41210 PCIE-PCIX" rev 0x09
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
em0 at pci2 dev 4 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82546GB)" rev 0x03: irq 3,
address: 00:0e:0c:72:4b:a2
em1 at pci2 dev 4 function 1 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82546GB)" rev 0x03: irq 11,
address: 00:0e:0c:72:4b:a3
ppb2 at pci1 dev 0 function 2 "Intel 41210 PCIE-PCIX" rev 0x09
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x01
pci4 at ppb3 bus 4
ppb4 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PCIE-PCIE" rev 0x09
pci5 at ppb4 bus 5
ami0 at pci5 dev 2 function 0 "Symbios Logic MegaRAID" rev 0x01: irq 10 LSI
523/64b/lhc
ami0: FW 713N, BIOS vG119, 64MB RAM
ami0: 1 channels, 0 FC loops, 1 logical drives
scsibus0 at ami0: 40 targets
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <AMI, Host drive #00, > SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 286163MB, 36480 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 586061824 sec total
scsibus1 at ami0: 16 targets
ppb5 at pci0 dev 28 function 4 vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x27e0 rev 0x01
pci6 at ppb5 bus 6
bge0 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5721" rev 0x11, BCM5750 B1
(0x4101): irq 3 address 00:12:3f:2a:3e:b8
brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0
ppb6 at pci0 dev 28 function 5 vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x27e2 rev 0x01
pci7 at ppb6 bus 7
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: irq 10
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: irq 5
usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11
usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub3 at usb3
uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
ppb7 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA AGP" rev 0xe1
pci8 at ppb7 bus 8
vga1 at pci8 dev 5 function 0 unknown vendor 0x18ca product 0x0020 rev 0x00
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801GB LPC" rev 0x01
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801GB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0
configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to com
patibility
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0
scsibus2 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus2 targ 0 lun 0: <HL-DT-ST, CDRW/DVD GCC4482, E108> SCSI0 5/cdrom
removable
cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801GB SATA" rev 0x01: DMA, channel
0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to nativ
e-PCI
pciide1: using irq 11 for native-PCI interrupt
"Intel 82801GB SMBus" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask ffe5 netmask ffed ttymask ffef
pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
ulpt0 at uhub3 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0
ulpt0: Brother HL-5050, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1
ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
dkcsum: sd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
root on sd0a
rootdev=0x400 rrootdev=0xd00 rawdev=0xd02
umass0 at uhub3 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0
umass0: Prolific Technology Inc. ATAPI-6 Bridge Controller, rev 2.00/0.00,
addr 2
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus3 at umass0: 2 targets
sd1 at scsibus3 targ 1 lun 0: <Maxtor 7, Y250M0, YAR5> SCSI0 0/direct fixed
sd1: 238418MB, 238418 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 488281250 sec total
Regards
/Per-Olov
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