Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:46:56 +1000 From: Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com> Cc: O'Shaughnessy Evans <shaug@aloha.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: watchdog timeout on Broadcom Gigabit NICs Message-ID: <3D6D6F00.7050904@au.darkbluesea.com> References: <20020828225911.GC27455@aloha.net> <008101c24ef1$922b6ec0$6401a8c0@kc.rr.com>
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Hi, 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. Apparently the Alpha requires alignment, but it would seem Intel requires no alignment. Anyway, that worked here, it might be your problem too. FWIW, this was a dual CPU machine, too, but it was exhibiting this problem on a generic kernel - we NFS mount our source, so we couldn't even *build* an SMP kernel :-) HTH Duncan > > > > >>Hello. I've recently installed FreeBSD 4.6.2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2650, >>and I'm running into a problem that I haven't been able to solve. >>One of my interfaces is regularly hanging up. It's a 2-port Broadcom >>Gigabit Ethernet card using the bge driver. I see this on console every >>time it locks up: >> >> bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting >> >>As far as I can tell, the cabling is good. Hardware diagnostics didn't >>reveal any problems. The man page for bge doesn't say much about what >>could cause this, but I'm fairly sure the NIC works when other operating >>systems run on the box, so I doubt it's a hardware issue. Does anyone >>have suggestions on what else I can try to get rid of the timeouts? >> >>Thanks. >> >>-- >>= o'shaughnessy evans = = unix sys admin @ aloha.net = >> Smash forehead on keyboard to continue ... >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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