On Monday 29 January 2007 20:11, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Do you have a better idea than "between 6.1 and 6.2" as to when it broke? > There was a fair amount of work on bge in that time so knowing CVSup dates > or revisions could be useful.
No :( I have updated to RELENG_6 as of today and will try that tomorrow morning. If that doesn't work I'll try a binary search. > What speed switch are you using? Auto-negotiate or hard-wired? If > you have a managed switch, does switching between hard-wires and > auto-negotiate have any effect? Currently it's connected to a 10mbit hub :) (Very crusty, I know) I've tried hard wiring it to 10BaseT/UTP but no change. > I have an older bge (BCM5705 A3 NIC/PHY) running 6.2 and the initial > ifconfig (during rc.d processing) normally reports "no carrier" but > it recovers in a second or so (it's OK by the time ntpdate wants > the network). I presume you find that ifconfig is still reporting > no carrier once it's in multi-user mode. I am booting install media, but this is long past the kernel startup - I run the CD/DVD shell and then run ifconfig. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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