Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:32:04 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: Andrea Brancatelli <andrea@brancatelli.it>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The BladeCenter Saga -> bge driver not behaving properly... Message-ID: <43BE3914.3030208@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <20060105145731.F58957@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <200601051802.k05I2wAN026595@reddevil.brancatelli.it> <20060105145731.F58957@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Doug White wrote: >On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: > > > >>Sorry for breaking the thread and posting a new message instead of replying >>but I'm having some problems with my mailserver. >> >>I did a few screenshots of the problems we are having with the Broadcom lan >>card and the bge driver... I cannot paste text because I cannot access the >>machine in SSH (since it's not working...) >> >> > >You need to compile your kernel with > >options BGE_FAKE_AUTONEG > >This option is available on RELENG_5 after 5.4 only .. 5.4-RELEASE itself >should work due to my attempts to sabotage other blade vendors' products. >Our driver does not handle autonegotation for the blades correctly. > > FYI: The LS20 blades only do 1000 TX anyway (at least here, we don't have the internal switch). That may be the reason for this quirk. cheers, Rainerhome | help
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