bce: Device not configured

[Jan Winter]

On 03/14/12 19:40, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 02:08:46PM +0100, Jan Winter wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> on an Dell Blade m610 is not possible to change the network media option:
>>
>> ifconfig bce0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex up
>> ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured
>>
>> Setting the media option to "autoselect" and connecting the m610 to a
>> 100 MBit switch, I always get "no carrier"
>> only 1g full-duplex seems to be working. I have tested this on
>> 8.3-prerelease and 9-stable
>>
>> any Ideas?
>>
>> cheers
>> Jan
>>
>> pciconf -lv
>> bce0 at pci0:1:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x02871028 chip=0x163a14e4
>> rev=0x20 hdr=0x00
>>      vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>      device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM5709S Gigabit Ethernet'
>>      class      = network
>>      subclass   = ethernet
>>
>> dmesg
>> bce0:<Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX (C0)>  mem
>> 0xda000000-0xdbffffff irq 36 at device 0.0 on pci1
>> miibus0:<MII bus>  on bce0
>> brgphy0:<BCM5709S 1000/2500baseSX PHY>  PHY 2 on miibus0
>> brgphy0:  1000baseSX-FDX, auto
>> bce0: Ethernet address: 00:26:b9:fb:04:0c
>> bce0: ASIC (0x57092000); Rev (C0); Bus (PCIe x4, 2.5Gbps); B/C (5.0.11);
>> Bufs (RX:2;TX:2;PG:8); Flags (SPLT|MSI|MFW); MFW (NCSI 2.0.5)
>> Coal (RX:6,6,18,18; TX:20,20,80,80)
>> bce1:<Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX (C0)>  mem
>> 0xdc000000-0xddffffff irq 48 at device 0.1 on pci1
>> miibus1:<MII bus>  on bce1
>> brgphy1:<BCM5709S 1000/2500baseSX PHY>  PHY 2 on miibus1
>> brgphy1:  1000baseSX-FDX, auto
>> bce1: Ethernet address: 00:26:b9:fb:04:0e
>> bce1: ASIC (0x57092000); Rev (C0); Bus (PCIe x4, 2.5Gbps); B/C (5.0.11);
>> Bufs (RX:2;TX:2;PG:8); Flags (SPLT|MSI|MFW); MFW (NCSI 2.0.5)
>> Coal (RX:6,6,18,18; TX:20,20,80,80)
>>
> I'm not sure you're seeing one of long standing remote PHY issue of
> blade box but would you try the patch at the following URL?
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/bce/bce.rphy.diff
>
> After applying the patch, show me the dmesg output(bce(4) and
> brgphy(4) related ones) and 'ifconfig -m bce0'.
> Note, the patch was not tested at all(lack of hardware).

Hello,

thank you very much, for your quick support
Now its looking much better

ifconfig -m bce0
bce0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
         
options=c01bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
         
capabilities=c01bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
         ether 00:26:b9:fb:04:0c
         inet 192.168.100.30 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
         inet6 fe80::226:b9ff:fefb:40c%bce0 prefixlen 64 tentative 
scopeid 0x1
         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
         status: active
         supported media:
                 media autoselect
                 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex
                 media 1000baseT
                 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
                 media 100baseTX
                 media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
                 media 10baseT/UTP

dmesg:
.....
bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX (C0)> mem 
0xda000000-0xdbffffff irq 36 at device 0.0 on pci1
bce0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (16 supported)
msi: routing MSI IRQ 256 to local APIC 16 vector 52
bce0: using IRQ 256 for MSI
bce0: Remote PHY : TP
bce0: bpf attached
bce0: Ethernet address: 00:26:b9:fb:04:0c
bce0: ASIC (0x57092000); Rev (C0); Bus (PCIe x4, 2.5Gbps); B/C (5.0.11); 
Bufs (RX:2;TX:2;PG:8); Flags (SPLT|MSI|Remote PHY(TP)|MFW); MFW (NCSI 2.0.5)
Coal (RX:6,6,18,18; TX:20,20,80,80)
bce1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX (C0)> mem 
0xdc000000-0xddffffff irq 48 at device 0.1 on pci1
bce1: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (16 supported)
msi: routing MSI IRQ 257 to local APIC 16 vector 53
bce1: using IRQ 257 for MSI
bce1: Remote PHY : TP
bce1: bpf attached
bce1: Ethernet address: 00:26:b9:fb:04:0e
bce1: ASIC (0x57092000); Rev (C0); Bus (PCIe x4, 2.5Gbps); B/C (5.0.11); 
Bufs (RX:2;TX:2;PG:8); Flags (SPLT|MSI|Remote PHY(TP)|MFW); MFW (NCSI 2.0.5)
Coal (RX:6,6,18,18; TX:20,20,80,80)
.....

I have done a quick test with 100 and 1000 MBit, both working very well.
Its possible to get a Patch for 8 Stable?


thank in advance
Jan