From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 31 16:53:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51ED216A400 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:53:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slawek.zak@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18FBA13C441 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:53:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slawek.zak@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 71so255310wri for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:53:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=oiBIkzpfKh7HX97SV9tD/6FWifHfaCtdgBgeKu0+puRKsreeHk/FunhcXHMVCgt4RNdyii9hhDrwcsimKVcJOXND5YIxm01wUhEcE0y39PEGqb6yO7Paderje3+f7pJzN3YUE/0GpUdo7yFhSjcFx1VCg/hEXLFPokYpBe98l8o= Received: by 10.90.65.11 with SMTP id n11mr1465560aga.1170260870650; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:27:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.65.6 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:27:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <787bbe1c0701310827o9b84b33q1322007bf68f4f8a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:27:50 +0100 From: "Slawek Zak" To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Forcing 1000FD for bce X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:53:37 -0000 Hi, First of all thanks to Doug White for committing SerDes support for bce. I have a question for someone familiar with this driver. I must enforce Gb/Full-duplex before the end of boot. I have IBM BladeCenter chassis which internally uses Nortel 2-3 switches which in turn do not allow for autonegotiation of internal interfaces. I want to run a diskless configuration so changing the bits with ifconfig is not an option. Tweaking settings in PXE boot agent doesn't help - the link preference is not preserved after kernel starts booting. Thus the last resort remains I guess - fiddling with the source. Help anyone TIA, /S