Broadcom NetXtreme II BMC5708 no carrier

[Eric F Crist]

IIRC, there is some problems with the driver in FreeBSD for these  
network cards.  My guess is you've got a newer Dell server?  Your only  
real option is to install a different network card.

Eric Crist


On Nov 24, 2007, at 8:18 AM, supportsobaka at mail.ru wrote:

> Hello
>
> We have problem with Broadcom NetXtreme II BMC5708 on our blade
> server.
>
> ifconfig bce0 report:
>
> bce0: flags=8847<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        options=3b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU>
>        inet 172.0.0.199 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.0.0.255
>        ether 00:1a:64:33:29:c7
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>        status: no carrier
>
>
> Try to set
> #ifconfig bce0 media 1000baseSX mediaopt full-duplex
>
> bce0: flags=8847<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        options=3b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU>
>        inet 172.0.0.199 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.0.0.255
>        ether 00:1a:64:33:29:c7
>        media: Ethernet 1000baseSX <full-duplex> (none)
>        status: no carrier
>
>
> Status don't want change to active, and nothing work :(
>
> FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE (7.x have problem too)
>
> Is any idea?
> -- 
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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks