The BladeCenter Saga -> bge driver not behaving properly...

[Rainer Duffner]

Doug White wrote:

>On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Andrea Brancatelli wrote:
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>>Sorry for breaking the thread and posting a new message instead of replying
>>but I'm having some problems with my mailserver.
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>>I did a few screenshots of the problems we are having with the Broadcom lan
>>card and the bge driver... I cannot paste text because I cannot access the
>>machine in SSH (since it's not working...)
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>You need to compile your kernel with
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>options BGE_FAKE_AUTONEG
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>This option is available on RELENG_5 after 5.4 only .. 5.4-RELEASE itself
>should work due to my attempts to sabotage other blade vendors' products.
>Our driver does not handle autonegotation for the blades correctly. 
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FYI:
The LS20 blades only do 1000 TX anyway (at least here, we don't have the 
internal switch).

That may be the reason for this quirk.



cheers,
Rainer