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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: 5.3 on IBM/Intel Blade server?
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Paul Dlug wrote:

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> On Feb 19, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Doug White wrote:
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> > Is the suggested "fix" the patch that was applied to -current?
>
> Yes, the patch just appears to comment out some flags being set on the
> interface. The code has changed a number of times since then but the
> relevant section is still there. I don't understand enough about the
> ethernet driver to know if there is something else relevant that must
> be changed.

Sadly I know nothing about the internals of the bge parts. If you found a
PCI card with this chip on it, or could make a blade available to a
developer (Bill Paul, probably) they could attempt to fix the problem.

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