Novascale R440 and BCM 5720

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TaHu

Greetings,

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.1 on a Bull Novascale R440 which has a network card BCM 5720.

Issue is the BCM 5720 is not recognized at all by the OS.

Does someone has already experienced this issue ? I've read many things concerning this card associated with a Dell Server, and thought this issue was fixed in 9.1 release.
 
I've got this message repeated:

bge0: 2 link states coalesced


I will try to force speed and duplex from server and switch side, and see if it'd resolve it.
 
TaHu said:
I've got this message repeated:

bge0: 2 link states coalesced


I will try to force speed and duplex from server and switch side, and see if it'd resolve it.
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Hmmm...view comment.

You have to add to your /boot/loader.conf
Code: 
hw.bge.allow_asf="0" 
hw.pci.enable_msi="0"

Reboot your machine.
 
Ok i've tried to force speed/duplex = result NOK.
I've tried to change to other ports on the cards, repeating tests i've performed on bge0 = result NOK.

I've tried to connected to the 2 orignal network ports present on the server : i have the same error, but this time, sometimes i can ping other machine, which i couldn't from the broadcom card.

I think i will try to remove this broadcom card, and see if i have better results by connecting cable on the network port on the mothercard of the server. I'm assuming there is a compatibility issue with bge driver and this server, and moreover this server associated with this broadcom card.


Let me know your thoughts about it fellows.


Cheers,
 
Boot with the network cable disconnected...when the system is up and running, connect the cable again.

Maybe will work:

# ifconfig bge0 down up
 
Ok so, i've added these options in loader.conf, and rebooted my machine with cable network disconnected, then I plugged it.

I don't have these error message anymore, and for 10 seconds, connection is good. but after that, i have the message:

bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting

Then i can see in /var/log/message that the interface go down then up. But after that, i don't have any connection, interface is up, but i can't ping anymore.

Try to reboot again, but same result.
 
You can do the following, first, be sure your BIOS is updated.

If you have an MSIX card can be disabled, adding in /boot/loader.conf:
Code: 
hw.pci.enable_msix="0"

Post your problem in freebsd-net mailing list, if these change do not solve your issues.
 
Ok finally issue solved, i've installed 9.1 Stable instead of 9.1 release, and now everything is working good.

Thanks for your help guys :)
 
Did you need to add some hints in /boot/loader.conf? Please, explain how you solved it. Maybe someone would need this information in the future ;)
 
As i've said, i've just installed 9.1 Stable instead of 9.1 release, without adding anything, and everything worked fine after that :)
 
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