kern/155442: bge driver is seen but does not respond to networking requests

[Zack Dannar]

>Number:         155442
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       bge driver is seen but does not respond to networking requests
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 10 16:30:12 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Zack Dannar
>Release:        PC-BSD 8.1(FBSD 8.1) and PC-BSD 8.2(FBSD8.2)
>Organization:
None
>Environment:
FreeBSD pcbsd-1472 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #1: Sat Jul 17 14:19:59 PDT 2010     root at build8x64.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/pcbsd-build81/fbsd-source/8.1/sys/PCBSD  amd64
>Description:
The bge driver is acknowledged by the kernel but will not respond to network.  I have tried PCBSD-FreeBSD 8.1 and , as instructed by yongari, tried a live CD of PCBSD-FreeBSD 8.2.  The driver was still unresponsive.  Here are the details.


Addtional information : http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=22300

[ pciconf -lv ]
bge0 at pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x01ec1028 chip=0x167a14e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller (BCM5754)'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

[ dmesg -a ]
bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x00b002> mem 0xfd8f0000-0xfd8fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5787 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:18:8b:8b:97:2d
bge0: [FILTER]
pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0
pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xbc00-0xbcff mem 0xd

.. LATER IN DMESG ....


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