Broadcom BCM5701 / HP NC6770

Erich Jenkins, Fuujin Group Ltd erich at fuujingroup.com
Fri Apr 9 06:54:35 UTC 2010


I just upgraded one of the lab boxes, an HP DL580-G3 with an NC6770 GigE 
fiber card to 7.0-REL, and noticed that this card no longer works:

bge0 at pci0:10:1:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x00c10e11 chip=0x164514e4 
rev=0x15 hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
     device     = 'BCM5701 NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet'
     class      = network
     subclass   = ethernet

We were previously running 5.3 on this box (I know, VERY old), but never 
had a problem. The link now fails to come up. I've tried forcing the 
port out of auto (media 1000baseSX mediaopt full-duplex) and as long as 
the port doesn't have an IP assigned via rc.conf on system boot, I can 
get the switch to see it (Cisco 6505), but no traffic to flow. I've 
checked all the obvious things (duplex setting on switch, cable failure, 
etc.), all to no avail. I fiddled with the knobs in the driver (rxcsum, 
vlan_mtu, etc) with no changes either.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
Erich M. Jenkins
Fuujin Group Limited

"You should never, never doubt what no one is sure about."
-- Gene Wilder


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