Call for bge(4) testers

YongHyeon PYUN pyunyh at gmail.com
Sun Sep 16 08:57:27 UTC 2012


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:11:02PM +0900, Wanpeng Qian wrote:
> 
> >It seems BCM5723 support code was not added by me so I don't know
> >how well it works in previous FreeBSD releases. Did bge(4) ever
> >work with your controller?
> 
> The driver works fine except the "bge0: Watchdog timeout", that will 
> bring the interface down/up for a while. make it unstable for network 
> share service.
> 
> This card works fine under windows and opensolaris. so I think this is
>  a driver issue.

watchdog timeouts can be triggered by various issues so it's hard
to guess the root cause of the issue.
Would you show me the dmesg output(bge(4)/brgphy(4) output
only)?

> 
> When I search by google. many users report this issue, from FreeBSD 7
>  to Current. that is no workaround at this time except buy another
>  card.
>  
> Regards.
> 
> Qian


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