Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:01:09 -0500 From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: Andrea Brancatelli <andrea@brancatelli.it> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The BladeCenter Saga. Message-ID: <160B72FB-0B0A-4B8F-9065-5EFBCB41D4EC@siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <200601050917.k059HeAN023417@reddevil.brancatelli.it> References: <200601050917.k059HeAN023417@reddevil.brancatelli.it>
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On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:17 AM, Andrea Brancatelli wrote:
> The blades have two Broadcom NICs... the bge drivers fires up with no
> problem, but none of the bge0/bge1 card seems to actually work.
> Whathever
> setting I apply to them I cannot reach anything on the outside, and
> furthermore the emergency shell on VTY4 allows me a very short set of
> commands. I have no doubts on the functionality of the hardware for
> various reason (we tried to install on 3 different server always
> with the
> same results; one of the blades was working ok with windows 2003
> before).
>
> A very suspicious thing is that ifconfig reports for both the cards:
> "status: no carrier", while the cable is surely pulled in (it's hard
> wired, it cannot be pulled off at all).
>
> So we are stuck again. I downloaded the complete ISO for amd64. I
> plan on
> doing the installation from CDRom on Blade 3 (the one that actually
> succeeds in seeing the CD) and then investigate further on the
> Broadcom
> issue.
>
> Do anyone has ever stepped on problem with the bge driver?
Though not in a blade configuration, I have had a couple of Dell
PowerEdge servers with the bge driver running for a couple of years
flawlessly.
pciconf thinks the following, on both systems:
bge0@pci1:8:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00d11028 chip=0x164414e4
rev=0x12 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM5700 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
dmesg:
bge0: <Broadcom BCM5700 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x7102> mem
0xfeb00000-0xfeb0ffff irq 17 at device 8.0 on pci1
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5401 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:06:5b:3a:xx:xx
ifconfig:
bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=1a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
inet 10.10.10.110 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255
ether 00:06:5b:3a:xx:xx
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
> Hints?
Does your blade management console allow you to enable/disable the
ethernet cards presented to the system (By returning no carrier status)?
Andy
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