Re: dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD

2006-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On September 29, 2006 2:31:03 PM -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) We're having intermittent problems with the onboard NICs on these units. I have some testing to do Monday to narrow the problem down, but for now, don't

Re: dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD

2006-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On September 29, 2006 2:31:03 PM -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) We're having intermittent problems with the onboard NICs on these units. I have some testing to do Monday to narrow the problem down, but for now, don't

Re: dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD

2006-10-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 2, 2006 9:36:31 AM -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, if those are the Broadcomm Extreme NICs (bce), you need to grab the new version of the if_bce.c file. It fixed the problems that I had with the NICs. There's a char inside the file that defines the version - you

Re: dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD

2006-10-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 2, 2006 12:29:36 PM -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that I just ran a buildworld over NFS with no problems, so it seems as if all issues have been resolved in the 0.9.6 version. Must have had something else going on during last week's tests. Glad to hear that.

dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD

2006-09-29 Thread Stas Khromoy
hey folks we're planing to expand, which of course requires us to buy another server. so here is the question are there any known problems with dell PowerEdge 2900/2950 and FreeBSD ? thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD

2006-09-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Stas Khromoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hey folks we're planing to expand, which of course requires us to buy another server. so here is the question are there any known problems with dell PowerEdge 2900/2950 and FreeBSD ? Yes. Search the various lists and you'll see lots. To

Re: dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD

2006-09-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On September 29, 2006 2:31:03 PM -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) We're having intermittent problems with the onboard NICs on these units. I have some testing to do Monday to narrow the problem down, but for now, don't trust the onboard NICs to work reliably. Bill, if