Pb with network interface and some other questions

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:00:43PM +0100, Stephane THOMAS wrote:

> The main pb I have is that the ethernet interface (bge0) works, but 
> breakdown a few minutes after I boot. with this message (repeated) in the 
> first VT : "bge0: PHY read timeout". I tried googling to find out a 
> solution but I must admit I'm a little bit lost. Do one has an idea for 
> this ? The problem happens with or without ACPI support.

Check the mailing list archives:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/ 

I've seen some messages concerning bge recently.

> My network interface is : Broadcom BCM5705 A1, ASIC rev. 0x3001
> I upgraded my BIOS with the last version available.
> ifconfig tell me : "media : Ethernet autoselect". I would try to force to 
> 100MB but I can't find where to change this setting.

Have a look at the bge(4) and ifconfig(8)  manual pages. What you need
is the "media" parameter to ifconfig, which you should set to 100baseTX.
 
> The second point is just a question I have : what's the difference between 
> 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-STABLE ?

This can be somewhat confusing, especially since you sometimes also see
CVS tags. Have a look at appendix A.7 of the FreeBSD handbook. You'll
find the english handbook at
/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html, but you can
also access it via the FreeBSD website: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

Roland
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