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Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:57:18 -0500
From: Damon Anton Permezel <dap@damon.com>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM5701 GigE Ethernet problems??
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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?

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