kern/92090: [bge] bge: watchdog timeout -- resetting

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:40:05AM +0000, Floris Bos wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/92090; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Floris Bos <info at je-eigen-domein.nl>
> To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: kern/92090: [bge] bge: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:14:07 +0100
> 
>  This might be a different problem, but I add it to this bug as I am getting the same error message.
>  
>  
>  I have a brand new HP DL120 G6 server which has an on-board NIC that is based on the BCM5723 chipset.
>  The NIC is not supported/recognized by FreeBSD 8, but the FreeBSD 9 (January snapshot) identifies it as:
>  
>  ==
>  bge0: <HP NC107i PCIe Gigabit Server Adapter, ASIC rev. 0x5784100> mem 0xdf900000-0xdf90ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci32
>  ==
>  
>  After boot, the network works for about 5 seconds, barely enough time to get an IP by DHCP, and sent a ping or 2.
>  Then network connectivity goes down, and after some time there is a "bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting" message.
>  
>  Then network works again for 5 seconds, and goes down again. All the time, repeatedly.
>  
>  The system works fine under Ubuntu. So I assume the hardware is ok.
>  

I'm not sure but it looks like you have a BCM5784 controller. What is
the output of "devinfo -rv | grep phy"?