Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell

[David Christensen]

> Does any one find solution to this problem as we have same, 
> try a proposed patch but still have problem and don't find 
> anywhere the solution?

I've worked with a few people off list and it seems there is an
issue with the way the management firmware loaded on the 5709C
enables packet reception before the FreeBSD driver has an 
opportunity to load.  I haven't been able to find a driver only
workaround that works with the "production" firmware on the Dell
systems.  (I don't have any reason to believe this issue is
limited to just the Dell systems but I simply haven't been able
to test I on other systems yet.)  The only reliable workaround
at present is to disable the management firmware on the 5709C.
You should have a DOS based "uxdiag.exe" utility on the driver
disks you recevied from Dell.  If you run the commands 

"C:\>uxdiag.exe -c 1 -mfw 0"
"C:\>uxdiag.exe -c 1 -mfw 0"

You will disable the management firmware on both devices.
I have tested an unreleased version of firmware which does seem 
reliably resolve the problem but we could be a month on more
away from releasing it.

Dave