Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:57:18 -0500 From: Damon Anton Permezel <dap@damon.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> 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: <20020508105718.H53377@damon.com> In-Reply-To: <11023.1020872962@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:49:22PM %2B0200 References: <20020508104606.F53377@damon.com> <11023.1020872962@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:49:22PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. That reference is to the BCM5400, nest par? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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