Dear Sir, I have tried to install FreeBSD 10.3 at HP Proliant ML110 Gen9 and the NIC driver does not work. The NIC is a Broadcom 5717 C. The driver is not attached during boot and the ifconfig returns only loopback interface. I have tried install Debian and tg3 driver Works. Also, DragonFlyBSD Works with if_bnx driver. Best regards, Giuliano Sperandio
(In reply to Giuliano from comment #0) if_bnx [1] seems to correspond with the if_bge [2] driver based on the driver description in the respective manpages. Could you please attach your pciconf -lv output for the machine from DragonflyBSD? 1. https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=if_bnx§ion=ANY 2. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=if_bge&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+10.3-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html
Created attachment 170672 [details] pciconf output
(In reply to Ngie Cooper from comment #1) Dear Ngie Cooper, I have attached the output pciconf at file pciconf.out.txt. DragonFlyBSD has also a if_bge driver. I cannot understand the difference between if_bge and if_bnx, they seem to be quite similar. https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=if_bge§ion=ANY(In reply to Ngie Cooper from comment #1)
Actually, I have tried first to install FreeNAS 9.10. As the system doesn't works, I started to look for why it is not working. As I could retrieve, the source code of DragonFly BSD includes the 5717 C NIC at if_bnx. The FreeBSD if_bge source code includes only 5717 A and 5717 B NICs. The 'C' version is missing.
Created attachment 170681 [details] 5717C patch
Heh, it was added a long time ago. And as for why bnx(4) in DragonflyBSD, its mainly because the bnx(4) support 4 RX rings on all chips, and 4 TX rings on 5717C/5719/5720, and well of course multi-vector MSI-X support. Adding these stuffs to bge(4) caused too much trouble for me back to 2013, bge(4) is already too complex. I have attached the patch for FreeBSD bge(4) to take over 5717C, please test.
Dear Sepherosa, I wish to thank you very much for your help. I'm sorry my ignorance but I have looked for how to compile this patch and I did not found. Is it possible to return the necessary commands to do this? (or a link with instructions) Best regards, Giuliano
(In reply to Giuliano from comment #7) cd /usr/src fetch -o - https://bz-attachments.freebsd.org/attachment.cgi?id=170681 | patch -p1
Dear Ngie, I have triple checked typing to be sure it is not my mistake. There is a error: fetch: No match. Hmm... I can't seem to find a patch in there anywhere. Best regards, Giuliano
(In reply to Giuliano from comment #9) The command I provided is for use with FreeBSD.
(In reply to Giuliano from comment #9) Add single-quotes around the URL or escape the question mark: cd /usr/src fetch -o - 'https://bz-attachments.freebsd.org/attachment.cgi?id=170681' | patch -p1
(In reply to Stephen Hurd from comment #11) Dear Stephen, single-quote makes fetch command works. But the patch command ask for 'File to patch:' and I have no idea what to type. Is it possible to have a new module to execute kldload? Best regards, Giuliano
(In reply to Giuliano from comment #12) SOLVED. What I did: - I follow the steps showed in the link below (until the Step 3). https://github.com/freenas/freenas-build/wiki/FreeNAS-9.10---10-%E2%80%94-Setting-up-a-FreeNAS-build-environment - Add the patch in the attachments cd /usr/src fetch -o - https://bz-attachments.freebsd.org/attachment.cgi?id=170681 | patch -p1 - Do the remaining steps 4 and 5. I wish to thank Ngie Cooper, Sepherosa and Stephen -- otherwise I could not solve this problem. Best regards, Giuliano Sperandio
A commit references this bug: Author: sephe Date: Mon May 30 06:49:02 UTC 2016 New revision: 300985 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/300985 Log: bge: Support 5717 C0, which is almost same as 5720 A0 PR: 209758 Obtained from: DragonFlyBSD d79f5d8f5fe94cd6769207b2901422977d502bc0 MFC after: 1 week Changes: head/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c head/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h
A commit references this bug: Author: sephe Date: Mon Jun 13 03:03:09 UTC 2016 New revision: 301848 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/301848 Log: MFC 300985, 301103 r300985 bge: Support 5717 C0, which is almost same as 5720 A0 PR: 209758 Obtained from: DragonFlyBSD d79f5d8f5fe94cd6769207b2901422977d502bc0 MFC after: 1 week ============ r301103 bge: Force chipid to 5720 A0 for 5717 C0 in an early place Discussed with: yongari MFC after: 1 week Sponsored by: Microsoft OSTC Changes: _U stable/10/ stable/10/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c stable/10/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h