HP Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 330i Adapter

[bgold]

Just moved my install from an HP ML110 G7 to an HP ML150 G9. The only thing that would not come up was the nic's. They are onboard HP Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 330i Adapter, with chipset BCM5717 Rev C0.

In order to get my system up I installed a PCIe Nic. Would like to get the onboard nic working. Does anyone have any ideas?

10.2.0.2 - Prester (revision 2115) - 64bit

Thanks

[Lee Sharp]

Wait for it to be supported? Nic support in FreeBSD can lag a bit, and Nas4Free will lag a bit more behind FreeBSD. Once FreeBSD supports it, you may be able to backport the driver and shorten the time a bit...

[Parkcomm]

the BCM5717 is listed here https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge, I'd expect it to work.

[bgold]

Parkcomm,

You would think so, but no.

pcib14: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 28.4 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib14
pci2: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
pci2: <network, ethernet> at device 0.1 (no driver attached)

I have tried everything I could find and nothing works. I even tried loading the drivers and it says they are already installed. I have a feeling that the HP firmware does not report the card as a true BMC5717 card and Nas4Free does not know what driver to use. I'm hoping someone can help me get the information needed to identify the card and compile a driver that will work.

[Parkcomm]

Here is a pain in butt suggestion - it'll tell you whether you might be able to solve the issue with even more work.

Install FreeBSD 10.2 onto a USB stick and boot - check the dmesg to see if the drier loads. I that doesn't work try FreeBSD 11. If either works you could try loading the drive from that release.

If not I'd suggest the FreeBSD forums if there is an existing answer or the FreeBSD mailing list to talk to developers. The good new is you've got popular model so its going to be sorted out soon or later.

Also check

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dmesg  | grep gbe

for error messages

[bgold]

Thanks I will try that out.

[Parkcomm]

Also remember you can use the NDIS driver https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/co ... setup.html

I've never done it, so apart from telling you it exists, I can't be much help.

[bgold]

Thanks I was thinking about trying that out. I will load up a usb version of freebsd to create it.