bce: unable to fix media

[Cristiano Deana]

Hi,

tuning my network fixing nic's speed and duplex (both on server and
switch) i got this error with bce driver:

# ifconfig bce0
bce0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=1bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
        ether 00:15:c5:fe:11:01
        inet 192.168.1.13 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseSX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
# ifconfig bce0 media 1000baseSX
ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured

or (according to bce(4)):

# ifconfig bce0 media 1000baseTX
ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured

system:
# uname -rsm
FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 amd64

bce0 at pci0:6:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x01bb1028 chip=0x16ac14e4
rev=0x12 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-SX (B2)> mem
0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci6
miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0
brgphy0: <BCM5708S 1000/2500BaseSX PHY> PHY 2 on miibus0
brgphy0:  1000baseSX-FDX, auto
bce0: Ethernet address: 00:15:c5:fe:0f:c6
bce0: [ITHREAD]
bce0: ASIC (0x57081021); Rev (B2); Bus (PCI-X, 64-bit, 133MHz); F/W
(0x02090105); Flags( MFW MSI )

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