Problem with IBM NetXtreme 1000-T GigaEthernet Adapter

[Senandung Mendonan]

David / list,

Some new developments/leads on this issue:-

On 8/21/06, Senandung Mendonan <mendonan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If you could attach a dump of dmesg that shows the messages from the
> > driver that might help too.
>
> Here's the dmesg for the dual-port version:-
>
> pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4
> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem
> 0xdcff0000-0xdcffffff irq 48 at device 1.0 on pci5
> miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
> brgphy0: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
> brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX,
> 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
> bge0: Ethernet address: 00:10:18:11:2a:0d
> bge1: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem
> 0xdcfe0000-0xdcfeffff irq 49 at device 1.1 on pci5
> miibus1: <MII bus> on bge1
> brgphy1: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus1
> brgphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX,
> 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
> bge1: Ethernet address: 00:10:18:11:2a:0a
>
>

After deploying on a few servers, we realized some of the servers work
OK, and some not, although the cards are apparently same model, with
same dmesg shown above.

Upon closer inspection, we found out that the two NICs' chipsets
differ in minor revision:-

1. The working NIC:-

Broadcom BCM5704CKRB TS0341 P13 706741 B (manufactured 23/12/2004,
older revision of the same BCM5704C chipset supported by the FreeBSD
bge driver.

( Picture: http://absolute-p.ath.cx/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/old-23-12-2004.jpg
)

2. The intermittent NIC:-

Broadcom BCM5704CKRB CS0424 P20 723153B B (unknown manufacture date,
but probably newer than the working NIC).

( Picture: http://absolute-p.ath.cx/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/new.jpg )

I have yet to try a 6.2 kernel, the site has no internet connections
and a bit far, so takes a while for me to try that. In the meantime,
perhaps with the chipset details you have some ideas?

Thanks.

--mendonan
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