SOLVED bcm57416 10G NetXtreme Dell 14G

[simonatackUoB]

All,

I have just brought a dell server R540 14th Gen to use with freenas. the onboard 1G broadcom network are found and work fine, the add on dual intel 10G x550T nic is found, but the 10G mezz card with bcm57416 does not have any drivers loaded. it seems that there is support in freebsd bnxt driver for these cards. I know the chelsio are the preferred option for 10G network cards but when buying brand name that isnt always a possibility.

Code:

lspci | grep BCM574
b3:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
b3:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA Ethernet Controller (rev 01)

Do I need to do something to enable this driver in freenas?

If not how do I go about compiling the driver and adding it into my freenas?

Thanks

Simon

 

[Sinjiku]

Hi

I would said in the next release ;)
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.2R/hardware.html

I have these cards too on my R540. I will try the FreeNAS 11.2-BETA3

 

[simonatackUoB]

Sinjiku,

The driver isnt included in the 11.2-BETA3 by default but I have managed to compile the driver from the freenas/freebsd source tree. I have manually inserted the module and it loads fine, but havent got the networks all connected up to fully test yet.

Simon