bge(4) problem
Gleb Smirnoff
glebius at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 20 04:43:57 PST 2006
Hi, Peter!
Can you please answer several questions. I don't promise to do
anything, since I don't have such card and it is not sold in Russia,
but I will try to help you.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 06:30:12PM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:
P> I installed a IBM x336, a 1U server.
P>
P> it came with two bge interfaces built-in:
P> (from dmesg) <Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4101>
P>
P> which are working fine.
P>
P> But I have a problem with two dual port Broadcom cards plugged in into
P> this box:
P> <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100>
Not related to problem, but how did you managed to install two PCI
cards into 1U server?
P> I cannot connect them to the 1000MBit switch (a Dell Powerswitch,
P> unfortunatelly in unmanaged mode at the moment and 1000 km away:-(
P>
P> If I try autonegiotiate they sometimes come up with 10MBit/sec, sometimes
P> they do not detect a carrier at all,
P>
P> if I force them to 1000baseTX they do not find a carrier,
P>
P> if I force them to 100baseTX they connect but I have packet loss (varying
P> between 15-60 %) so they are basically unusable.
P>
P> I tried it with 6.0-Release,
P>
P> upgraded to 6.0-p4,
P>
P> and finally to 7.0-current this afternoon (it includes the last
P> src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c version 1.124)
Are the NICs a copper ones? Do they work properly against each other,
or against any other equipment? Since you are connecting them to
a switch that is 1000 km away, I suppose you are using some media
converters; what equipment is the NIC connected to?
P> I am more then happy to debug and test, but I only have limited time. Then
P> I have to install Red Hat Linux. My boss is keen to use FreeBSD but we are
P> under some pressure to get it working soon.
Do you have a proven evidence that Linux works properly in the same setup?
What is the version of Linux kernel?
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