bge(4) and gigabit

[Skylar Thompson]

Mike Tancsa wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:48:14 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you
>wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I've got a Poweredge 1750 6-STABLE, and I'm having problems getting its onboard
>>Ethernet interfaces negotiated to gigabit speeds. It has dual Broadcom
>>BCM5704C copper interfaces, which are supported by the bge(4) driver.
>>
>>I've tried this againt a managed gigabit switch: I plugged in both
>>interfaces, and start out at 10baseT. Increasing to 100 works fine, but
>>going to 1000baseT causes the link to drop. I've tried using ifconfig to
>>force media settings, and these also only work up to 100baseT. I've also
>>tried the cabling and switch with other gigabit gear, and these negotiate
>>fine.
>>
>>I also had this machine running Linux at one point, and it negotiated to
>>gigabit then, so the interfaces themselves shouldn't be the problem.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>    
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>Can you post to the list the output of 
>ifconfig -a
>and
>dmesg
>and
>uname -a
>  
>

I've upgraded to 6.1-RELEASE, and it seems like the problem has gone 
away. I used to get lots of messages like this:

bge1: link state changed to DOWN
bge1: link state changed to UP

but now I just get the link state changing to UP once.

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-- Skylar Thompson (skylar at cs.earlham.edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/

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