--On Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:16:27 -0400 Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lars Kristiansen wrote:
Dominik Zalewski skrev:
I'm thinking of buying Dell PowerEdge SC440 for a small webserver.
Anyone using this server with FreeBSD 6.2 -release ? Any issues? Some
6.2-release does not have a driver for the built-in network interface.
So you probarly want to order it with extra gigabit nic.
I have last year's model, the SC430. I don't know what they changed but
the 440's specs still say "integrated Boardcom gigabit NIC". The bge
driver in 6.x has worked just fine for me. You do need to either
custom-compile it in, or load it at boot time. See the man pages:
Afaik, this particulare integrated nic might be supported in freebsd-stable
but not yet in -release.
I did however order a broadcom extra nic with it, which worked "out of the
box".
Here is some output from 'pciconf -lv', first the pci-card, then the
integrated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x165914e4 chip=0x165914e4 rev=0x21
hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01df1028 chip=0x167a14e4 rev=0x02
hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM5754 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
Regards,
Lars
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=
FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html
Actually, looking at the 6.2-release i386/GENERIC kernel conf, it's
compiled in by default.
The machine has been a very reliable "bare bones" server for us; just
what I wanted. I think the system board is an Intel-OEM. Intel SATA on
it has been reliable. The case is "BTX" -- a new standard pushed by Dell
and some other Tier One manufacturers.
-RW
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