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
> 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 <wpaul@windriver.com>), 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 > >
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
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.