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From: O'Shaughnessy Evans <shaug@aloha.net>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com>
Subject: Re: watchdog timeout on Broadcom Gigabit NICs
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Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com> wrote:
> I missed the original post, but we had some trouble with the BGE cards too.
> Our fix (well, it makes it work acceptably, I don't know how "fixed" it is)
> was to make a change in the source code. The file is:
> 
> /usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h
> 
> you need to find the line
> 
> #define ETHER_ALIGN 2
> 
> and change the 2 to a 0.
[...]

Thanks.  I'll give that a shot.

So to put in that change, it looks like I can just recompile the kernel
and "make install".  Is there something else I need to do?  I'm an old
hand at some other Unices, but FreeBSD is pretty new to me.

Best regards.

-- 
= o'shaughnessy evans =                   = unix sys admin @ aloha.net =

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