Need help building module for broadcom 5719

tuyan · Oct 29, 2013, 12:56 PM

Are you able to use all of the ports on the card ? On dell R420, I was having DMA timeouts up until patched the kernel to increase the ata request timeout.

shikka · Oct 29, 2013, 2:08 PM

At the moment I use 3 ports without any DMA timeouts. Can try the 4th port tomorrow, when I have patched one more line.

4 Ports no problems :-)
mbuf is constant

tuyan · Oct 30, 2013, 2:04 PM

Perfect. on my local tests, i see about 984Mbps of throughput on a single port wan. And ~1.94 Gbps on 2 ports bridged on the lan side.

Ok. Is there any possibility to see what were the issues in operation with the previous backport? If we can verify those , i can send a pull request to repo for these patches.

shikka · Oct 30, 2013, 2:58 PM

Sounds great.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,63484.0.html

Unfortunately I have no intel network card to test.

DJP · Dec 15, 2013, 5:01 PM

Hello,

I'm interested to have a pfsense release with BCM5719 working. How can I do since the current release doesn't seems to be compatible ?

Thanks,
Regards,

shikka · Dec 19, 2013, 5:03 PM

Hi,
sorry for the delay. You can compile a pfsense iso with the diffs from tuyan (http://www.4inarow.net/pfsense/bge.zip). Works for me.

DJP · Dec 20, 2013, 3:34 PM

Hi,

Is there a way to upload your compiled iso ? I don't have the environment to recompile the iso and i'm not sure how to do it :-(

I can provide an FTP or smth if you want…

Many thanks.

shikka · Dec 21, 2013, 1:24 PM

Have fun :)

http://www.share-online.biz/dl/OQ4XR5YM8N3C

DJP · Dec 27, 2013, 8:45 AM

Hi Santa Shikka, :)

Oh many many thanks. I'll try this out asap !

Regards,

BKAS2014 · Mar 14, 2014, 2:57 PM

Thank you very much for this image.

Now i can install pfsense on our Dell R320 Servers.

The only Problem i have, that i cant update to a snapshot version 2.1.1

I hope the broadcom drivers will be included in another release.

Kind Regards

Boris

PS.: Sorry for the poor English :-)

fernandopsilveira · Aug 26, 2014, 2:13 PM

Hi! I'm also having this issue with Broadcom BCM5719/BCM5720. I would like to try shikka's build, but link is broken.

Could someone please upload it again? :D
Thank you!!

charliem · Aug 26, 2014, 4:56 PM

If you are experimenting, why not try a 2.2 alpha snapshot, and report any problems you have, rather than backporting a driver to 2.1.x? FreeBSD 10.0 used in pfSense 2.2 should have the newer bge chipsets supported.

Also, even if someone does have the iso you referenced, a link to a user-compiled iso will not last long in this forum, given the recent crackdowns on pfSense development in the wild.

fernandopsilveira · Aug 27, 2014, 5:09 PM

Unfortunatelly I'm stucked on pfSense 2.1 right now. :-\

It would be great if someone could at least republish tuyan's patches, since the given link (http://www.4inarow.net/pfsense/bge.zip) is broken… :P

fernandopsilveira · Sep 1, 2014, 12:07 PM

Finally! :D
I was able to build BCM5719/BCM5720 drivers (both 32-bit and 64-bit) using pfsense-tools RELENG_2_1 patches, no need for any additional patches. If someone need those drivers, just PM me ;)

mirage22 · Feb 23, 2017, 5:28 PM

I know this is off topic. But does this device support inline IPS?

Also do you know where can I get updated firmware for this device.

Thanks in advance!