Re: any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:45:15PM +0100, Jens Fallesen wrote: The primary NICs are Broadcom, the secondary ones are Nvidia as part of the chipset (FreeBSD does not recognise those). I've been running the nfe driver with the ciphy patch for probably greater than six months on my NVidia nForce4-based Athlon X2 system. I don't understand why it hasn't been rolled into -stable yet. Admittedly I haven't tested nve for a while, but the comment above doesn't instill confidence. Without the ciphy patch none of the drivers even detect carrier, which means that the base system still doesn't include those bits... Cheers, -- Andrew ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100
* Vivek Khera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new M2 variants of sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have three X4100 original versions that works stunningly well (but I don't use the internal disks) with FreeBSD 6.1. I was just curious how the new ones work, and the X2100 seems to fit the bill for what I currently need. We have a pair of X4100M2's in production right now running 6.2, though we run a pretty cut-down kernel that lacks USB support. There are some dmesg warnings related to the IOAPICs but they seem harmless: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 4 ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 6 ioapic1: WARNING: intbase 48 != expected base 24 ioapic2: Changing APIC ID to 7 ioapic2: WARNING: intbase 56 != expected base 55 ioapic3: Changing APIC ID to 5 ioapic3: WARNING: intbase 24 != expected base 63 ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic3 Version 1.1 irqs 24-47 on motherboard ioapic1 Version 1.1 irqs 48-54 on motherboard ioapic2 Version 1.1 irqs 56-62 on motherboard Disks work fine with mpt(4), just as with !M2. Also, if anyone knows which ethernet ports they put in that'd be helpful. I'd avoid them if they had broadcom chips :-( 2 nVidia nForce nve(4)'s and 2 Intel Pro/1000 em(4)'s. Quite a step back from the quad em(4)'s in !M2's, but 2 usable NIC's should be enough for most uses. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100
On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Thomas Hurst wrote: Also, if anyone knows which ethernet ports they put in that'd be helpful. I'd avoid them if they had broadcom chips :-( 2 nVidia nForce nve(4)'s and 2 Intel Pro/1000 em(4)'s. Quite a step back from the quad em(4)'s in !M2's, but 2 usable NIC's should be enough for most uses. Thanks for the info... I just need 2 NICs so that works for me. Now, if they'd rearrange the guts to take a full-height card I could go back to using LSI RAID cards instead of Adaptec ones :-)
Re: any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100
On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jens Fallesen wrote: One issue I have is that the embedded management software can run on NIC 1 only. And once FreeBSD detects this, the embedded management software is disabled. Does anyone know of a way to make FreeBSD detect NIC 0 only? Did you spring for the $100 LOM card or are you just using the embedded software?
any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100
Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new M2 variants of sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have three X4100 original versions that works stunningly well (but I don't use the internal disks) with FreeBSD 6.1. I was just curious how the new ones work, and the X2100 seems to fit the bill for what I currently need. Also, if anyone knows which ethernet ports they put in that'd be helpful. I'd avoid them if they had broadcom chips :-(
Re: any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100
Hi, We'are using an x2100m2 with FreeBSD6.2. On the ethernet side, the x2100m2 has two bge iface. On the original x2100 the bge iface works fine for me. On the M2 x2100 try ONLY FreeBSD 6.2, because 6.1 will be terribly slow. The x2100m2 has two sata2 disk bays, where you can insert almost any normal sata2 hdd-s. I had very big problems, with the orig x2100 satahalfhwraid on freebsd, i suggest you shoud avoid that. The hdd-s work fine without the hwraid (ataraid) and gmirror does the job nicely. Regards, Andras Vivek Khera wrote: Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new M2 variants of sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have three X4100 original versions that works stunningly well (but I don't use the internal disks) with FreeBSD 6.1. I was just curious how the new ones work, and the X2100 seems to fit the bill for what I currently need. Also, if anyone knows which ethernet ports they put in that'd be helpful. I'd avoid them if they had broadcom chips :-( ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100
On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jens Fallesen wrote: Another funny thing is that the embedded management software works under MSIE only. Not exactly what I would expect from Sun. :-) ew gross. the description of the LOM on the X2100 claims the functionality is the same as the ILOM on the 4100, so that's very surprising to me. i'll probably splurge for the X4100 again, then. the ILOM on these is nothing short of spectacular. Thanks!
Re: any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100
On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jens Fallesen wrote: One issue I have is that the embedded management software can run on NIC 1 only. And once FreeBSD detects this, the embedded management software is disabled. Does anyone know of a way to make FreeBSD detect NIC 0 only? what about something similar to this, how I disable atkbd on my sun boxes: hint.atkbdc.0.disabled=1 perhaps hint.bge.1.disabled=1 might work. you can test by breaking into the boot loader and typing set hint... then continue the normal boot. if it works, just plop that line (without set) into /boot/loader.conf.
Re: any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100
Vivek Khera wrote: Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new M2 variants of sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have 6.2 running smoothly on three X2100 M2 units. The primary NICs are Broadcom, the secondary ones are Nvidia as part of the chipset (FreeBSD does not recognise those). One issue I have is that the embedded management software can run on NIC 1 only. And once FreeBSD detects this, the embedded management software is disabled. Does anyone know of a way to make FreeBSD detect NIC 0 only? Another funny thing is that the embedded management software works under MSIE only. Not exactly what I would expect from Sun. :-) Apart from the issues above, I have no problems whatsoever. -- Jens ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
