kern/67598: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5704s brgphy not detected on
Nexicon Blade server
Paul Saab
ps at mu.org
Mon Jun 7 00:10:28 GMT 2004
The following reply was made to PR kern/67598; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Paul Saab <ps at mu.org>
To: Luuk van Dijk <lvd at mndmttr.nl>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/67598: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5704s brgphy not detected on Nexicon Blade server
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:09:00 -0700
What does a verbose bootup look like?
Luuk van Dijk (lvd at mndmttr.nl) wrote:
>
> >Number: 67598
> >Category: kern
> >Synopsis: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5704s brgphy not detected on Nexicon Blade server
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: non-critical
> >Priority: medium
> >Responsible: freebsd-bugs
> >State: open
> >Quarter:
> >Keywords:
> >Date-Required:
> >Class: sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id: current-users
> >Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 05 03:20:09 PDT 2004
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator: Luuk van Dijk
> >Release: 5.0 upto 5.2.1
> >Organization:
> Mind over Matter B.V.
> >Environment:
> 5.2.1 install cd with generic kernel, fixit shell, no uname available
> >Description:
> on the Nexicon Blade server, equipped with Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5704s,
> the bge driver detects both interfaces, but not the miibus/brgphy
> interfaces (as it does on another server that I have which has 2x BCM5703)
>
> in the fixit shell, both bge0 and bge1 show up with ifconfig, and
> with the correct mac address. assigning an ip address changes the state from 'no carrier' to 'active´, but the interface cannot be pinged
> from another computer on the same net, nor is any packet sent out when I try to install over NFS.
>
> a driver written by broadcom for 4.2, 'if_bc.c' exists, which works fine under 4.8, so the hardware is correct. also, I can pxeboot over bootp/tftp/nfs. unfortunately this driver is incompatible with the 5.x architecture.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> boot the install image, start fixit shell, ifconfig bge0 192.168.1.1,
> ping from another machine on the same net. try to install from NFS, watch the net with tcpdump. observe the absence of traffic.
> >Fix:
> (probably in the bgrphy probe code)
> >Release-Note:
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
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-ps
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