Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 17:49:22 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Damon Anton Permezel <dap@damon.com> Cc: Jamie Heckford <jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jamie@trident-uk.co.uk Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM5701 GigE Ethernet problems?? Message-ID: <11023.1020872962@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 May 2002 10:46:06 CDT." <20020508104606.F53377@damon.com>
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In message <20020508104606.F53377@damon.com>, Damon Anton Permezel writes: >Hi. I just yesterday pulled out one of these because I figured it must >be hardwarily broken, given that the bge driver works so well for the >embedded BCM5700 on the motherboard of another box. > >My experience was that the link would come up on the switch as 1000baseTX, >but the ifconfig would report the device as 100baseTX<full-duplex>. > >If I "ifconfig bge0 down media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex up" >the switch would evidence link down/link up<100baseTX> and a few packets >could be exchanged. The data-sheet for nationals DP83861 mentions a flaw in certain broadcom chips, you may have hit that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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