Trying to Compile [HEAD] BCE driver with SERDES support on RELEASE_6_2

2007-01-29 Thread Conrad Burger
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RE: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2007-01-24 Thread Conrad Burger
? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Conrad Burger Sent: 16 January 2007 08:53 PM To: Morten A. Middelthon; David Christensen Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Roar Pettersen Subject: RE: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S

RE: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2007-01-16 Thread Conrad Burger
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SERDES support for BCE driver

2006-11-30 Thread Conrad Burger
Hi Does anyone know when SERDES support will be included into the BCE driver. I have 10 x DELL 1955 blade servers that I can't use because the BCE driver does not support SERDES. Regards Conrad ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-11-01 Thread Conrad Burger
On 01/11/06, David Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Oops, you're right. I've been accidentally ignoring > this anyways, I'll > > > >> take care of it. Thanks! > > > >> > > > >> Scott > > > >> > > > > > > > >Thanks the kernel now recognizes the network interface. > > > > >

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-10-31 Thread Conrad Burger
On 31/10/06, Conrad Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 31/10/06, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:06:28PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > > Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > > >On Mon, Oct 30, 200

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-10-31 Thread Conrad Burger
On 31/10/06, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:06:28PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > >On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:17:00PM +0200, Conrad Burger wrote: > > > > I am trying to get

Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-10-30 Thread Conrad Burger
I am trying to get FreeBSD to work on a Dell 1955 blade. Looks like the NICs on the blade are not supported by the BCE or BGE driver. On Linux the NICs are identified as "06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11)" From "if_bce.c"

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-26 Thread Conrad Burger
Hi all We have 5 Dell 1950s running the new BCE driver without any problems. Thanks Scott!! Maybe you can help me with another Dell-Broadcom network problem. I am trying to get FreeBSD to work on a Dell 1955 blade. Looks like the nics on the blade are not supported by the BCE driver. On linux

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-19 Thread Conrad Burger
On 19/10/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In response to Jason Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Scott Long wrote: > > Conrad Burger wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> It looks like there is a "new" version of the bce d

When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-18 Thread Conrad Burger
Hi It looks like there is a "new" version of the bce driver in HEAD. When will it be incorporated into Releng_6? We are currently having some performance problems with a java application on our Dell 1950s. And it looks like it has something to do with the speed with which network I/Os are

atacontrol Raid, cannot re-add member to array

2004-06-29 Thread Conrad Burger
the details, here are the questions 1.. How "safe" is the atacontrol raid feature? 2.. How do I rebuild an atacontrol RAID1 array on FreeBSD 4.10? Any help would be appreciated, I have been at it the whole day! Regards Conrad Burger Support Engineer TEBiVO Business Continuity Cell: +27 82

[kern/60555] vinum volume as a swap device not possible on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-05-14 Thread Conrad Burger
trying to mirror a servers swap partition using vinum, but it doesn't seem to be possible in FreeBSD 5.2.1. Just need to know if I should downgrade to 5.1 ? Any help would be appreciated Regards Conrad Burger Support Engineer TEBiVO Business Continuity Conrad[at]tebivo[do