Broadcom BCM5780 Link-UP before auto-negotiation completes

[Devin Teske]

On Aug 25, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Noel wrote:

> On 8/25/2011 4:26 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I've got three different workstations each with a Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet card
>> (slightly different models, but all running the bge(4) device driver) on
>> FreeBSD-8.1 RELEASE.
>> 
>> We've having a strange problem where each/every single reboot ends up in
>> dropping to single-user mode

[snip]

>> 
>> Suggestions welcome.
> 
> 
> I've found this workaround useful with my bge cards:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-April/056400.html

I see that this solution has been added to HEAD, a little over 2 months ago (but netwait rather than waitnetwork):

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=223310

Thanks Noel for the tip!
-- 
Devin

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