bce(4) on the Dell PE 2950

[Nicolas de Bari Embriz Garcia Rojas]

What is the latest stable firmware and in what firmware version you get
this issue ?

regards

On 10/18/2013 13:33, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013, at 17:56, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote:
>> 17.10.2013 20:15, Sean Bruno wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 08:59 +0300, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote:
>>>> I have a DELL PowerEdge 2950 server (3rd generation). There is a
>>>> network
>>>> card with chipset bce BCM5708.
>>>>
>>>> If a ready algorithm for getting rid of interface resetting / watchdog
>>>> timeout?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. 
>>> In the freebsd.org cluster we run several of these machines.  We had to
>>> update the f/w on them (broadcom) to make the errors go away.
>>>
>> Hello
>>
>> Share instructions for updating the network card firmware?
>> Thank you.
>>
> I imagine you should either boot off a Dell OMSA live CD and apply the
> patches (they're Linux binaries) or build a firmware update disc that
> automatically applies all firmware updates. The latter requires a
> specific Dell application that runs on Windows I believe.. maybe OSX?
>
> There may be a third option -- if you have the Enterprise DRAC in your
> system you can boot into a firmware update mode that pulls the patches
> directly from ftp.dell.com and applies them. However, I can't recall if
> this mode exists in 2950 IIIs.
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