FreeNAS can't detect NICs on Dell R710

[NickRIA]

I'm new to NAS and BSD: can someone offer guidance on how detect the builtin the NICs on R710 (broadcom NetXtreme)?
Found some info in the link below but can't figure out how to modify the kernel parameters
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bfe&sektion=4&manpath=freebsd-release-ports

Thanks

 

[Ericloewe]

Do yourself a favor and get an Intel NIC instead of bothering with crap broadcom.

 

[Mirfster]

+1 for Intel NICs, but I still would think that FreeNAS supports the BroadCom NICs. Quick search of the forums does show others who are running the R710, but while I did not read them all I didn't see too much in the titles about the NICs not being detected.

Do you have the NICs enabled in the BIOS? Also, I am assuming that you are using version 9.10.x?

 

[Ericloewe]

I still would think that FreeNAS supports the BroadCom NICs

The popular models at least. Support is a bit hit and miss.

 

[NickRIA]

the BCM5709 are the on board cards, BCM5708 are in the PCI slots. Any ideas why FreeNAS doesn't see the BCM5709?

[root@freenas] ~# lspci | grep -i net
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
[root@freenas] ~# ifconfig
bce0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=c01bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
ether 00:10:18:26:e7:a2
inet 192.168.253.188 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.253.255
nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
bce1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=c01bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
ether 00:10:18:26:e7:a0
inet 192.168.253.182 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.253.255
nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
[root@freenas] ~#

 

[Mirfster]

It does see them, are you asking why they are not getting IPs? What about ifconfig -a (in CODE Tags please)?