From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 09:32:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4096E16A41F for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:32:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE21243D45 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:32:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 39447 invoked by uid 89); 6 Jan 2006 09:32:10 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 39431, pid: 39435, t: 1.7103s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.86.2/m:33/d:1045 spam: 3.0.4 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.179?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@217.71.84.110) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 6 Jan 2006 09:32:08 -0000 Message-ID: <43BE3914.3030208@ultra-secure.de> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:32:04 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White References: <200601051802.k05I2wAN026595@reddevil.brancatelli.it> <20060105145731.F58957@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20060105145731.F58957@carver.gumbysoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: Andrea Brancatelli , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The BladeCenter Saga -> bge driver not behaving properly... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:32:13 -0000 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, Rainer