Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Thunder K8S pro S2882 twin Operteron

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 11 14:30:41 PST 2005


On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:08:57AM -0000, Alan Jay wrote:
> Having got 5.3 onto our new twin operteron Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882 with 8Gb
> of RAM and had a reasonabley stable operation for a few days we installed a
> couple of databases one worked fine but the other kept on causing the server
> to crash.  After some hunting around we found discussion about problems with
> the on board Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 Gigabit ethernet controller on
> Linux last year and wondered if there were similar issues with FreeBSD 5.3's
> broadcom driver?

This wouldn't be an amd64-specific problem as the driver is the same in
all FreeBSD.  You'll get a wider audience asking on freebsd-stable at .
 
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