From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 29 15:26:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D797216A402 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:26:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephane.thomas@lexmarkpartners-europe.com) Received: from emeamail2.lexmark-europe.com (emeamail2.lexmark-europe.com [195.25.85.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2731F13C481 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:26:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephane.thomas@lexmarkpartners-europe.com) Received: from emeamail2.lexmark-europe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.lexmark-europe.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE83BD69 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:00:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from l2frorhub01.emea.lexmark.com (l2frorhub01.emea.lexmark.com [157.184.182.176]) by emeamail2.lexmark-europe.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A785BC01 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:00:45 +0100 (MET) To: stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 7.0.1 January 17, 2006 Message-ID: From: Stephane THOMAS Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:00:43 +0100 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on l2frorhub01/LexEMEA(Release 6.5.5|November 30, 2005) at 01/29/2007 04:00:45 PM, Serialize complete at 01/29/2007 04:00:45 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Pb with network interface and some other questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:26:52 -0000 Hi, I'm a FreeBSD newbie (I use GNU/Linux) so I hope my questions won't be too = silly... So, to test freebsd I installed 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell Latitude D600=20 laptop. No problem to run X. I first felt in a trap choosing "Upgrade" in=20 sysinstall... So I re-installed again, then follow instruction from the=20 hand-book to buildworld, buildkernel, etc. No problem. The main pb I have is that the ethernet interface (bge0) works, but=20 breakdown a few minutes after I boot. with this message (repeated) in the=20 first VT : "bge0: PHY read timeout". I tried googling to find out a=20 solution but I must admit I'm a little bit lost. Do one has an idea for=20 this ? The problem happens with or without ACPI support. My network interface is : Broadcom BCM5705 A1, ASIC rev. 0x3001 I upgraded my BIOS with the last version available. ifconfig tell me : "media : Ethernet autoselect". I would try to force to=20 100MB but I can't find where to change this setting. Appart of this issue I feel FreeBSD to be a good OS, filesystem seems very = clean and I like the "ports" concept. St=E9phane THOMAS The second point is just a question I have : what's the difference between = 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-STABLE ? Stephane THOMAS TCS Desktop Team