Re: [stable 9]Dell R620 Ethernet Ordering

2012-06-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday, May 27, 2012 06:43:43 PM Sean Bruno wrote: > I'm trying to understand the newbus and acpi interactions on this Dell > R620 that result in the Broadcom adapter board being probed "backwards" > or just plain out of order in comparison to the connector layout and the > linux tg3 driver. >

Re: Dell R620 Ethernet Ordering

2012-05-28 Thread sthaug
> > I'm using several Dell servers with FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE and the bge > > driver. No problems that I can see. > > > > You are using R620/720 machines with the 5720 add on board? Sorry, my servers are slightly older Dell servers. No R620/720. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no

Re: Dell R620 Ethernet Ordering

2012-05-28 Thread Sean Bruno
On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 13:52 -0700, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > Incidentally, does the broadcom driver in either 8 or 9 work for anyone? > > When I try > > to use an 8 or 9 compiled in the past week I get unusable networking that > > bounces up > > and down. I'm using an R620 with the quad-port b

Re: Dell R620 Ethernet Ordering

2012-05-28 Thread sthaug
> Incidentally, does the broadcom driver in either 8 or 9 work for anyone? When > I try > to use an 8 or 9 compiled in the past week I get unusable networking that > bounces up > and down. I'm using an R620 with the quad-port broadcom daughtercard. I'm using several Dell servers with FreeBSD 8.2

[stable 9]Dell R620 Ethernet Ordering

2012-05-27 Thread Sean Bruno
I'm trying to understand the newbus and acpi interactions on this Dell R620 that result in the Broadcom adapter board being probed "backwards" or just plain out of order in comparison to the connector layout and the linux tg3 driver. We seem to be detecting PCI0:2:0 before PCI0:1:0. This seems o