bge and "no carrier" on IBM Blade 8843L1U

[Jonathan Feally]

Why whould you want to use that kernel option? I don't see that it is a 
requirement on the blade how-to. My guess is you haven't specifically 
set the interface to a media speed and duplex as the option indicates to 
me that the driver would not attempt auto negotiation. If the option is 
not required - lose it - otherwise try adding a media option to your 
ifconfig.

-Jon

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

>The hardware is a IBM BladeCenter HS20 (8843L1U). ifconfig says "no 
>carrier" (see below). (Networking does work when it running aother non-BSD 
>operating system.)
>
>Running FreeBSD 6.1 RC2 with GENERIC plus kernel configuration:
> options BGE_FAKE_AUTONEG
>
>When this extra kernel option is in place, the link light goes from 
>solid to off.
>
>The dmesg output says:
>
>pci5: <PCI bus> on pcib3
>bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704S Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem
> 0xdcff0000-0xdcffffff irq 77 at device 1.0 on pci5
>bge0: Ethernet address: 00:14:5e:3d:9d:dc
>bge1: <Broadcom BCM5704S Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem 
> 0xdcfe0000-0xdcfeffff irq 78 at device 1.1 on pci5
>bge1: Ethernet address: 00:14:5e:3d:9d:dd
>pci0: <base peripheral> at device 8.0 (no driver attached)
>pcib4: <MPTable PCI-PCI bridge> at device 28.0 on pci0 
>
>(I don't have the rest of the dmesg output. The system has no network 
>access. The above dmesg section is same as seen on 
>http://wiki.bsdforen.de/index.php/FreeBSD_On_IBM_Blade with MAC addresses 
>different.)
>
>ifconfig shows:
>
>bge0: flags=8802<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
>        ether 00:14:5e:3d:9d:dc
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseSX <full-duplex>)
>        status: no carrier
>bge1: flags=8802<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
>        ether 00:14:5e:3d:9d:dd
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseSX <full-duplex>)
>        status: no carrier
>
>(Hopefully I didn't make any typos. I can provide screenshots if needed.)
>
>Some links, which may be related:
>
>http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1351686+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2004/freebsd-current/20040919.freebsd-current
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=67598 (closed)
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=68445 (closed)
> 
>http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=859964+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2006/freebsd-current/20060108.freebsd-current
>
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
>
>p.s. I don't have physical access to this hardware, so I am getting info 
>from the admin.
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