Re: Dell PE800 NIC not recognized

2004-12-21 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 16, 2004, at 4:32 PM, Vivek Khera wrote:
I just took delivery of a Dell PE800 tower server.  I installed 
5.3-RELEASE amd64 on it, but it is not finding any ethernet device 
(there is one built into the mobo).

According to the Dell PE800 spec sheet 
(http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/800_specs.pdf) 
it is a "Single embedded Broadcom 5721 Gigabit Ethernet controller".

For the archives, I just wanted to follow up to say that as of December 
17, 2004, 5-STABLE recognizes this chipset just fine.  Seems to be 
working great.

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Re: Dell PE800 NIC not recognized

2004-12-17 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 17, 2004, at 3:44 AM, dima wrote:
According to the Dell PE800 spec sheet
(http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/800_specs.pdf)
it is a "Single embedded Broadcom 5721 Gigabit Ethernet controller".
570x series are surely supported. I tried those ones & they work quite 
ok. I have no idea if 572x are similar enough though.

I checked the bge source and the 5721 is not listed.  I just sent to 
Paul Saab the pciconf -l output.  I was booting the generic kernel, 
which certainly does have bge driver in it.  I have many other boxes 
with the 570x chips in them which work just fine.

Thanks for your help.
Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806
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Re: Dell PE800 NIC not recognized

2004-12-17 Thread dima
> I just took delivery of a Dell PE800 tower server.  I installed 
> 5.3-RELEASE amd64 on it, but it is not finding any ethernet device 
> (there is one built into the mobo).
> 
> According to the Dell PE800 spec sheet 
> (http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/800_specs.pdf) 
> it is a "Single embedded Broadcom 5721 Gigabit Ethernet controller".
570x series are surely supported. I tried those ones & they work quite ok. I 
have no idea if 572x are similar enough though.
Some troubleshooting ideas:
- is bge(4) driver compiled into your kernel (make sure miibus is also 
present)? try kldload if_bge if not
- ask the maintainer (Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>), he could know much more 
about Broadcom NICs

> I've never had issues with network controllers on dells before, so I 
> didn't pay any attention to this before I bought it.  Does there exist 
> a driver for this thing?  For now I guess I need to just slap in an old 
> fxp card I've got sitting about to get this up and running.  Any help 
> would be appreciated.  Or is it a supported chip and I just have a dud?
> 
> 
> Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
> +1-301-869-4449 x806
> 
> 
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Dell PE800 NIC not recognized

2004-12-16 Thread Vivek Khera
I just took delivery of a Dell PE800 tower server.  I installed 
5.3-RELEASE amd64 on it, but it is not finding any ethernet device 
(there is one built into the mobo).

According to the Dell PE800 spec sheet 
(http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/800_specs.pdf) 
it is a "Single embedded Broadcom 5721 Gigabit Ethernet controller".

I've never had issues with network controllers on dells before, so I 
didn't pay any attention to this before I bought it.  Does there exist 
a driver for this thing?  For now I guess I need to just slap in an old 
fxp card I've got sitting about to get this up and running.  Any help 
would be appreciated.  Or is it a supported chip and I just have a dud?

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806