bge(4) watchdog timeout

[Wilkinson, Alex]

Well, if I do that I will be using the old AT-PIC. 
Which as far as I am aware is old and crusty ;-\

Is this correct john ?

 -aW

	0n Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:56:13PM +0100, Arno J. Klaassen wrote: 

	"Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au> writes:
	
	> I get the following errors, however, although it states that there is no
	> carrier, there is.
	> 
	> 	bge0: firmware handshake timed out
	> 	bge0: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed!
	> 	bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	> 	        options=1a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
	> 	        inet 131.185.40.211 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 131.185.43.255
	> 	        ether 00:11:0a:40:d2:dd
	> 	        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
	> 	        status: no carrier
	> 	
	> 	Mounting NFS file systems:bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
	> 
	> 
	> Here is ifconfig(8) output after fully booted:
	> 
	> bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	>         options=1a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
	>         inet 131.185.40.211 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 131.185.43.255
	>         ether 00:11:0a:40:d2:dd
	>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
	>         status: active
	> 
	> Seems odd enough, to email the wizards about it.
	
	one of my co-workers had a similar problem (PR 73538).
	Leaving out "device apic" from the kernel-config "fixed" the
	problem. YMMV
	
	Arno