bge drivers does not work for 3COM 3C996-SX / 3C996B-T

[Hideki Yamamoto]

Dear Paters,

Thank you for your reply.

From: Wes Peters <wes at softweyr.com>
Subject: Re: bge drivers does not work for 3COM 3C996-SX / 3C996B-T
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:59:47 -0800
Message-ID: <200312282059.47990.wes at softweyr.com>

> On Sunday 28 December 2003 04:01 am, Hideki Yamamoto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried today's 4.9-stable on a FreeBSD box with two 3COM 3C996-SXs and
> > two onboard BMC5703 chips.  3COM 3C996-SX boards are linkup, but the
> > other side, an SX I/F on SUN F280 is not linkup.
> > When doing ping command to SUN, LED on 3C996 are brinking but
> > nothing happens to SUN board.
> > I changed bge0 to bge2, but the situation is the same.
> > Hardware diagram is as follows.  bge0 can connect to the router or
> > another PC with intel SX board.
> > Is this related to AUTO negotiation?  I cannot find any parameters
> > about AUTO negotiation in 'bge' driver source.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Hideki Yamamoto
> >
> >  +--------------+
> >
> >  | (bge0)3C996-SX+-----+[Router]
> >  |
> >  | (bge2)3C996-SX+-----+[SUN F280]
> >
> >  +--------------+
> >
> > bge0: <Broadcom BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x105> mem
> > 0xf7ef0000-0xf7efffff irq 10 at device 1.0 on pci1 bge0: Ethernet
> > address: 00:04:76:e1:06:cf
> 
>  No miibus or PHY on bge0?

Sorry, I cannot answer because my knowledge is not sufficient.

> > bge1: <Broadcom BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x1002> mem
> > 0xf7ee0000-0xf7eeffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci1 bge1: Ethernet
> > address: 00:0b:cd:d2:b0:40
> > miibus0: <MII bus> on bge1
> > brgphy0: <BCM5703 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
> > brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX,
> > 1000baseTX-FDX, auto pcib2: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
> 
> Apparently this is a copper (1000baseTX) card, right?

Yes. 
Both bge1 and bge3 are onboard 1000/100/10base copper cards.
These are based on BCM5703.
Both bge0 and bge2 are SX cards.

> > bge2: <Broadcom BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x105> mem
> > 0xf7ff0000-0xf7ffffff irq 15 at device 1.0 on pci4 bge2: Ethernet
> > address: 00:0a:5e:1d:83:25
> > bge3: <Broadcom BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x1002> mem
> > 0xf7fe0000-0xf7feffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci4 bge3: Ethernet
> > address: 00:0b:cd:d2:b0:3b
> 
> Again, no miibus or PHY on bge2 and bge3?  Are these both SX cards?

Would you tell me how to gathere additional information?

>         Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
> 
> Wes Peters                                               wes at softweyr.com
> 

Regards,

Hideki Yamamoto