bge freeze

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

On 2/8/07, Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> dear hackers,
>
> i have been experiencing problems with my dell latitude d610 laptop's
> bge nic for last month or so. i keep my laptop docked and always
> running, i.e. no sleep etc. after few days, bge nic just stops
> responding. from user's point of view, all existing network
> connections are dropped.
>
> when i run tcpdump on the nic, i can see incoming traffic, however,
> when i try to send something out it never shows up in the tcpdump.
> weird. everything starts working fine after reboot.
>
> anyone has a similar problem or its just me?
>
> can anyone point me where to look for more info?
>
> beetle% uname -a
> FreeBSD beetle.savvis.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #84: Fri Jan
> 26 10:37:30 PST 2007
> max at beetle.savvis.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> beetle% dmesg|grep bge
> bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev.
> 0x4001> mem 0xdfcf0000-0xdfcfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
> miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
> bge0: Ethernet address: 00:11:43:54:22:c9
> bge0: 2 link states coalesced
>
> beetle% sysctl -a | grep bge
> hw.bge.fake_autoneg: 0
> hw.bge.allow_asf: 0
> dev.bge.0.%desc: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC
> rev. 0x4001
> dev.bge.0.%driver: bge
> dev.bge.0.%location: slot=0 function=0 handle=\_SB_.PCI0.PXP0.NIC_
> dev.bge.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x14e4 device=0x1677 subvendor=0x1028
> subdevice=0x0182 class=0x020000
> dev.bge.0.%parent: pci2
> dev.bge.0.wake: 0
> dev.miibus.0.%parent: bge0
>
> thanks,
> max

There are some changes since your kerel date to bge, please csup your
src and rebuild your kernel, and check it out :)


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-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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