bge watchdog timeout errors FreeBSD 7.3

[Pieter de Boer]

Hi,

On 09/23/10 16:40, a.smith at ukgrid.net wrote:
> we are seeing these errors repeatedly on a new Dell R300 server:
>
> Sep 23 15:06:29 vcomm kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> Sep 23 15:06:29 vcomm kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
> Sep 23 15:06:31 vcomm kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP
>
> Info on the hardware from dmesg:
>
> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5722 A0, ASIC rev. 0x00a200> mem
> 0xdfdf0000-0xdfdfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
> miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0

A 'me too' here. I have a Dell R300 with the same bge hardware, but this 
box is running 8.1-RELEASE. This issue did not occur when the box was 
running 8.0-RELEASE, so possibly a commit to bge-code between 8.0 and 
8.1 (and possibly 7.2 and 7.3, I guess) has this side-effect.

-- 
Pieter