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Subject: bge and "no carrier" on IBM Blade 8843L1U
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The hardware is a IBM BladeCenter HS20 (8843L1U). ifconfig says "no 
carrier" (see below). (Networking does work when it running aother non-BSD 
operating system.)

Running FreeBSD 6.1 RC2 with GENERIC plus kernel configuration:
 options BGE_FAKE_AUTONEG

When this extra kernel option is in place, the link light goes from 
solid to off.

The dmesg output says:

pci5: <PCI bus> on pcib3
bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704S Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem
 0xdcff0000-0xdcffffff irq 77 at device 1.0 on pci5
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:14:5e:3d:9d:dc
bge1: <Broadcom BCM5704S Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem 
 0xdcfe0000-0xdcfeffff irq 78 at device 1.1 on pci5
bge1: Ethernet address: 00:14:5e:3d:9d:dd
pci0: <base peripheral> at device 8.0 (no driver attached)
pcib4: <MPTable PCI-PCI bridge> at device 28.0 on pci0 

(I don't have the rest of the dmesg output. The system has no network 
access. The above dmesg section is same as seen on 
http://wiki.bsdforen.de/index.php/FreeBSD_On_IBM_Blade with MAC addresses 
different.)

ifconfig shows:

bge0: flags=8802<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
        ether 00:14:5e:3d:9d:dc
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseSX <full-duplex>)
        status: no carrier
bge1: flags=8802<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
        ether 00:14:5e:3d:9d:dd
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseSX <full-duplex>)
        status: no carrier

(Hopefully I didn't make any typos. I can provide screenshots if needed.)

Some links, which may be related:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1351686+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2004/freebsd-current/20040919.freebsd-current

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=67598 (closed)

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=68445 (closed)
 
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=859964+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2006/freebsd-current/20060108.freebsd-current


 Jeremy C. Reed

p.s. I don't have physical access to this hardware, so I am getting info 
from the admin.