Support for Broadcom BCM57800 10 GB card?

[Sixthmoon]

Anyone know how I can get Freenas 9.2.1.7 to recognize a Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gb Ethernet BCM57800 card?

I found the following in the freebsd docs:

bxe -- Broadcom NetXtreme II Ethernet 10Gb PCIe adapter driver

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
following line in loader.conf(5):

if_bxe_load="YES"​

Tried this, but no luck. I don't see any if_bxe.ko in /boot/kernel

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

M-

 

[cyberjock]

Per the hardware compatibility list for FreeBSD 9.2 (which the current version of FreeNAS is compiled against) it doesn't appear to support a BCM 57800 card...


https://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/hardware.html

So you don't make the card work unless you plan to get the driver code from somewhere else and compile it with FreeNAS yourself.

 

[Inacio Alves]

Hi to all,

I have the same problem and I saw that FreeBSD release 10.0R has compatibility with this driver
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/hardware.html
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bxe&sektion=4

I have a Dell R620 with 2 1Gigabit + 210Gigabit Broadcom BCM57800 that are listeds in boot menu, but the FreeNAS echoes the messages
"bxe0 is down"
"bxe1 is down"
...

That is, the FreeNAS was able to see the network cards, but It don't able to configure.
How I compile this driver for FreeNAS? I think that this
ftp://ftp.st.ryukoku.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD/branches/current/src/sys/dev/bxe/bxe.c
is updated.

Best regards.

 

[marbus90]

You don't. Either test the FreeNAS 10 alpha train or grab the LAN-cards with Intel 10Gbe from Dell.