XigmaNAS

Hi,

Is it possible to upgrade bxe driver on NAS4Free 9.2 for supporting Broadcom BCM578xx? I have read that FreeBSD 10 support that NIC. If yes, how can I do that?

Best regards,

If you can find the FreeBSD 10 driver (I guess it should be something like if_bxe.ko) you could drop it in /boot/kernel and add in advanced-->loader.conf the following parameter if_bxe_load="YES"
Then reboot and use kldstat to see if the driver was actually loaded..
Process is similar to the one I did in this post

It seem that bxe driver is integrated on FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p3 since there is bxe related inside /boot/kernel but that release support previous Broadcom 10GbE NIC. Any chance of getting FreeBSD 10 bxe kmod without installing FreeBSD 10 first?

That is why I posted the link for my other post..
Give it a try by deleting the one integrated from /boot/kernel and dropping the FreeBSD 10 driver there. Afterwards see if it loads..
Now about getting the driver, sorry don't know.. perhaps someone else does.

The old bxe driver (pci/bxe) is loaded by kernel itself, not by kernel module. How can I replace it with new one? My installation is on embedded mode.

Perhaps the following post can help: viewtopic.php?p=32403#p32403