Re: HP C-class Blade / Broadcom ethernet / SerDes controllers not supported
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:10:34PM +0100, Christoph Schug wrote: Maybe you can give it a try and check whether a current FreeBSD 7 works right and report back the result to the list. Just tried the current FreeBSD 7 snapshot (7.0-CURRENT-200702-amd64-disc1.iso) but unfortunately the box freezed during boot. It came up to the point where it probed PCI then it hung. Also tried with ACPI disabled - same result. The only way out is a cold boot (i.e. power-off/on) of the system :-( -ewald PS: If you're interested in the exact details of the hang I could upload the console screenshots to a webserver. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP C-class Blade / Broadcom ethernet / SerDes controllers not supported
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Maybe you can give it a try and check whether a current FreeBSD 7 works right and report back the result to the list. Thanks much for the info. Sure enough I'd like to try FreeBSD 7 but I'm running into kinda chicken-and-egg-problem here: With the box in question cut off the net (because the NIC isn't working) I wonder how I can get the FreeBSD 7 sources onto that box? Why not just get the latest ISO of FreeBSD 7? See [1]. Besides that - how/where should I fetch the FreeBSD 7 sources from? Hmm, the only way I can think of is fetching the sources in a working maching, make a tarball of it, burn it on CD and untar the sources in the blade. what cvsup-file should I use? Would changing *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 to something like *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 be enough? Actually tag would be *default release=cvs tag=., see [2] for details. But shouldn't matter if you go the ISO^H^H^Heasy ;) way. [1] ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200702/ [2] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html Cheers, -cs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP C-class Blade / Broadcom ethernet / SerDes controllers not supported
Actually tag would be *default release=cvs tag=., see [2] for details. But shouldn't matter if you go the ISO^H^H^Heasy ;) way. [1] ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200702/ [2] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html Hi Christoph, Thanks much for the hints/links! Didn't know that there are actually ISOs of the snapshot releases available. This definity makes my life a lot easier... ;-) -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HP C-class Blade / Broadcom ethernet / SerDes controllers not supported
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 (AMD64-version) on a HP C-Class Blade system with the following specs: Proliant BL465c 2x AMD Opteron 2.4GHz, 16GB RAM, 2x146 GB HDs in Raid1-config. During installation the NICs are not recognized. After reboot I get an error message in /var/log/messages like this: bce0: SerDes controllers are not supported! These NICs are listed as HP NC 370i in the blade configuration, internally they are Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706s (at least this is what FreeBSD 6.2 tells me upon booting). Has anybody out there got these NICs running under FreeBSD 6.2? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP C-class Blade / Broadcom ethernet / SerDes controllers not supported
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007, Ewald Jenisch wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 (AMD64-version) on a HP C-Class Blade system with the following specs: Proliant BL465c 2x AMD Opteron 2.4GHz, 16GB RAM, 2x146 GB HDs in Raid1-config. During installation the NICs are not recognized. After reboot I get an error message in /var/log/messages like this: bce0: SerDes controllers are not supported! SerDes code isn't implemented in FreeBSD 6.2, but there has been a commit in HEAD some days ago which should add this functionality to the bce(4) driver [1]. Maybe you can give it a try and check whether a current FreeBSD 7 works right and report back the result to the list. Unfortunately all of my BL460c blades are in production right now (under Debian/GNU Linux 4/amd64 *sigh*), so I cannot verify it on my own at the moment. I guess the chipsets of BL460c and BL465c are rather similar, despite the fact that the ones in the BL460c are of BCM5708S type. Output of one of my Linux blades regarding its ethernet NICs (the last two lines are the NICs on the Mezzanine board): | # lspci -nn | fgrep '[0200]' | 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:16ac] (rev 11) | 07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:16ac] (rev 11) | 11:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme 5715S Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:1679] (rev a3) | 11:04.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme 5715S Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:1679] (rev a3) [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c.diff?r1=1.26r2=1.27 These NICs are listed as HP NC 370i in the blade configuration, internally they are Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706s (at least this is what FreeBSD 6.2 tells me upon booting). Another lesson to be learned: one should generally distrust any marketing names like NC 370i. For example, both the QuickSpecs of the DL380 G5 [2] and BL460c [3] quote an NC373i Multifunction Gigabit ethernet adapter. Nevertheless they are completely different by design and while the one in the DL380 G5 works under FreeBSD 6.2, the one in the BL460c doesn't. In the past I knew such confusing names just from companies like Dell, but obviously HP adopted this bad habit recently unless it is just a typo in the specs. [2] http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12477_div/12477_div.html [3] http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12518_div/12518_div.html Hope this helps (although it's got rather off-topic in the end ;) -cs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
