From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 8 8:50:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676D737B423 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 08:50:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g48FnMHA011024; Wed, 8 May 2002 17:49:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Damon Anton Permezel Cc: Jamie Heckford , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jamie@trident-uk.co.uk Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM5701 GigE Ethernet problems?? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 May 2002 10:46:06 CDT." <20020508104606.F53377@damon.com> Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 17:49:22 +0200 Message-ID: <11023.1020872962@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > >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