FreeBSD / Nas4Free / Broadcom (bge) driver issues
Lately I’ve tried out NAS4Free, in favour of FreeNas… and so far I love it.
But installing it on my new Dell R320, with onboard NIC, I’ve had big problems getting network up.
First issue is you consoll or your log file will be filled with.
bge0: 2 link states coalesced
bge0: 2 link states coalesced
bge0: 2 link states coalesced
Searching the web, they all say you have to do add hw.bge.allow_asf=”0″ to your loader.conf,
but that’s not enough for me.. I also need to add hw.pci.enable_msi=”0″…
So to get NAS4Free up and working with broadcom (bge) nic, do the following.,
# mount -o rw -u /cf
# echo ‘hw.bge.allow_asf=”0″‘ >> /cf/boot/loader.conf
# echo ‘hw.pci.enable_msi=”0″ >> /cf/boot/loader.conf
# mount -o ro -u /cf
# reboot
Some how, that’s not enough… I always have to boot with the network cable deattached…
When the system is up and running, connect the cable again, and it’s rock solid…
I have not persued the last problem a lot, maybe a ifconfig up/down also work, but I’ve learned one thing, don’t mess with something that works.. 🙂
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