Re: 6.2 bge regression
On Mon, 2007-Jan-29 17:01:05 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I have some Supermicro P8SCT based systems I would like to run 6.2 on, unfortunately something between 6.1 and 6.2 has broken bge on this board. This board has 2 bge's and the first one is on before the BIOS hands off to the OS (I can see the activity light flash) but when the kernel attaches the light stops flashing. An ifconfig says 'no carrier'. 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. 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? 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. -- Peter Jeremy pgpLuJzvo8Qa5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 6.2 bge regression
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 pgp6mvm38sNSC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 6.2 bge regression
On Monday 29 January 2007 21:32, Daniel O'Connor wrote: 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 just dug out a spare switch (god knows why the hub was still in place) and it works fine with that. I then tried the 6.1 system with the switch and it worked (duh) but when I went to switch back to the hub it wouldn't work.. I don't know how the 6.1 box worked with the hub since I can't get it to work now, perhaps the hub is busted. So, in conclusion, I think bge(4) is OK :) -- 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 pgpBCE5By8dgs.pgp Description: PGP signature
6.2 bge regression
I have some Supermicro P8SCT based systems I would like to run 6.2 on, unfortunately something between 6.1 and 6.2 has broken bge on this board. This board has 2 bge's and the first one is on before the BIOS hands off to the OS (I can see the activity light flash) but when the kernel attaches the light stops flashing. An ifconfig says 'no carrier'. bge0: Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4101 mem 0xd100-0xd100 irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 miibus0: MII bus on bge0 brgphy0: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:89:be:5c pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 17 at device 28.1 on pci0 pci4: ACPI PCI bus on pcib4 bge1: Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4101 mem 0xd110-0xd110 irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci4 miibus1: MII bus on bge1 brgphy1: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus1 brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge1: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:89:be:5d From pciconf.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02c615d9 chip=0x165914e4 rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02c615d9 chip=0x165914e4 rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 This system was updated using CVS so it's really 6.2-PRERELEASE, I am about to try updating again to RELENG_6 and seeing if I was perhaps out of sync. -- 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 pgpLOIHsAga7u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 6.2 bge regression
Hi, Daniel, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I have some Supermicro P8SCT based systems I would like to run 6.2 on, unfortunately something between 6.1 and 6.2 has broken bge on this board. This board has 2 bge's and the first one is on before the BIOS hands off to the OS (I can see the activity light flash) but when the kernel attaches the light stops flashing. An ifconfig says 'no carrier'. bge0: Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4101 mem 0xd100-0xd100 irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 miibus0: MII bus on bge0 brgphy0: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:89:be:5c pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 17 at device 28.1 on pci0 pci4: ACPI PCI bus on pcib4 bge1: Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4101 mem 0xd110-0xd110 irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci4 miibus1: MII bus on bge1 brgphy1: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus1 brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge1: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:89:be:5d From pciconf.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02c615d9 chip=0x165914e4 rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02c615d9 chip=0x165914e4 rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 This system was updated using CVS so it's really 6.2-PRERELEASE, I am about to try updating again to RELENG_6 and seeing if I was perhaps out of sync. There is no difference between RELENG_6_2 and RELENG_6, so I think you should expect no change. I have backported some interesting changes against bge(4) here: http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/misc/patch-bge-releng62 You may try it out to see if things gets improved, but I am not very confident about that, because the changes are mostly unrelated to BCM5752. Also, we would appreciate if you could help to test if the latest -CURRENT snapshot can make your NIC to work correctly, because it looks like that we need a more complete MFC of the bge(4) changes, not just the ones I have chosen (for my personal needs). Cheers, -- Xin LI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
