illumos gate

To be precise, FreeBSD 12.1 did not recognize BCM57406 at install time. Manually loading bnxt driver in /boot/loader.conf with:

if_bnxt_load="YES"

made it work fine.

Unfortunately the bnxe driver and the bnxt driver are actually rather different. This'll require a new driver. While I started a prototype of such a driver, I don't have access to that hardware anymore so it's mostly stalled.

Thank you for considering this. A possible new driver could also add two other nics, also offered with Dell PowerEdge: 57402 and 57404: https://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/98/campaigns/broadcom-network-cards#campaignTabs-4