Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:10:03 +0200 From: Dirk Janssen <djanssen@netcologne.de> To: <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with 5.1-RELEASE and Broadcom BCM5704C Message-ID: <200381121103.553835@kevelaer> In-Reply-To: <20030811165617.AA3CD37B425@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hi Bill, >The BCM5704 has a smaller memory buffer space than earlier NICs,= and the >bge(4) driver up to 5.1-RELEASE failed to take this into= account. I >checked in a fix for this to 5-CURRENT and 4-STABLE yesterday.= You can >apply the following workaround on your 5.1-RELEASE systems to= fix this >(same workaround will work on 4.8-RELEASE as well): > >- Bring up /sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c in your favorite editor. -= Search for >the following line of code: > > CSR_WRITE_4(sc, BGE_BMAN_MBUFPOOL_LEN, 0x18000); > >It should appear twice in the bge_blockinit() function. - Change= 0x18000 >to 0x10000 in both places. - Recompile your kernel and/or= if_bge.ko >module. thanks for the information about this workaround. I will try it= out tomorrow and give you a feedback. Regards, Dirk Janssen
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