RE: bce(4) on the Dell PE 2950

2013-04-16 Thread David Christensen
> | > Specifically, we've seen that newer (9 and higher) have issues with > | > the doing initial setup and negotiation and that Dell did indeed > | > release newer firmware to fix the issues. This requires a full > | > reboot into Linux (probably centos6) to get the update to execute. > | > | I c

Re: bce(4) on the Dell PE 2950

2013-04-15 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 02:09:04PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: | (Added David to Cc) | | On 04/12/13 13:56, Sean Bruno wrote: | > A note from cluster...@freebsd.org | > | > It looks like there is some amount of instability or bugginess in | > some of the Broadcom firmware(management) on the bce(4) chipe

Re: bce(4) on the Dell PE 2950

2013-04-12 Thread Peter Wemm
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Sean Bruno wrote: > A note from cluster...@freebsd.org > > It looks like there is some amount of instability or bugginess in some > of the Broadcom firmware(management) on the bce(4) chipeset shipped on > later generations of the Poweredge 2950 from Dell: > > bce0:

Re: bce(4) on the Dell PE 2950

2013-04-12 Thread Xin Li
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 (Added David to Cc) On 04/12/13 13:56, Sean Bruno wrote: > A note from cluster...@freebsd.org > > It looks like there is some amount of instability or bugginess in > some of the Broadcom firmware(management) on the bce(4) chipeset > shipped on late