bge(4), 5714, IBM BladeCenter HS12, no carrier

[Jiří Kubíček]

Hi,

I've got problems with the bge(4) interfaces on HS12 blades installed
within an IBM BladeCenter.

Basically, the interfaces are recognized and attached, but I don't get
a carrier detected.  The hardware is ok, and there is indeed a gigabit
switch connected to the ports.

ifconfig output:

bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
	capabilities=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
	ether 00:1a:64:56:7e:3a
	inet6 fe80::21a:64ff:fe56:7e3a%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
	inet 192.168.100.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
	status: no carrier
	supported media:
		media autoselect
		media 1000baseSX mediaopt full-duplex
		media none

Related pciconf -lv entries:

bge0 at pci0:4:4:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x03861014 chip=0x166914e4
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'NetXtreme 5714S Gigabit Ethernet'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
    cap 07[40] = PCI-X 64-bit supports 133MHz, 2048 burst read, 1
split transaction
    cap 01[48] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
    cap 03[50] = VPD
    cap 05[58] = MSI supports 8 messages, 64 bit enabled with 1 message

(There are more interfaces; I list bge0 only for brevity.)

Excerpt from dmesg -v:

bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Fiber Controller, ASIC rev.
0x009003> mem 0xdbff0000-0xdbffffff,0xdbfe0000-0xdbfeffff irq 16 at
device 4.0 on pci4
bge0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (8 supported)
msi: routing MSI IRQ 256 to local APIC 0 vector 56
bge0: using IRQ 256 for MSI
bge0: CHIP ID 0x00009003; ASIC REV 0x09; CHIP REV 0x90; PCI-X
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5714 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0
brgphy0: OUI 0x000818, model 0x0034, rev. 0
brgphy0:  1000baseSX-FDX, auto
bge0: bpf attached
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:1a:64:56:7e:3a
bge0: [MPSAFE]
bge0: [ITHREAD]

Output from devinfo -rv | grep brgphy:

bge0 pnpinfo vendor=0x14e4 device=0x1669 subvendor=0x1014
subdevice=0x0386 class=0x020000 at slot=4 function=0
bge1 pnpinfo vendor=0x14e4 device=0x1669 subvendor=0x1014
subdevice=0x0386 class=0x020000 at slot=4 function=1

This system is an 9-current as of today.

If there's anything else I can do to track this problem down, please
let me know.

Best regards

Jiri KUBICEK

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