Re: Broadcomm bge in Dell 745/FreeBSD 10-STABLE = no gigabit Eth
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:41:57PM -0500, Michael L. Squires wrote:
>
> I'm unable to get a Broadcom DCM5754 GigeE (allegedly) interface on a Dell
> 745 desktop to talk gigabit Ethernet.
>
> It works fine at 100 Mbits/full duplex and works fine, to the extent that
> one
> can tell, under Windows 7 x64 and Centos 5.
>
> Attempts to force it to gigabit through options in rc.conf fail.
>
> The errors look like those reported some years ago for another 745, but I
> would have guessed that that particular problem no longer existed.
>
> I have a workaround (installing an Intel 1000 MT into a PCI slot) so this is
> not a critical problem. I'm using the 745 to control an HP MSL6000 tape
> library (2 LTO-3 drives) and amanda from ports and dump are working without
> problems, thank you very much.
>
> Mike Squires
> mikes@siralan.org
> UN*X at home
> Since 1986
>
> >From dmesg:
>
> FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE #0 r262738: Tue Mar 4 11:42:23 EST 2014
> root@testbsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TESTBSD amd64
> FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz (2126.49-MHz K8-class
> CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f2 Family = 0x6 Model = 0xf Stepping
> = 2
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> avail memory = 4038057984 (3850 MB)
>
> bge0: CHIP ID 0x0000b002; ASIC REV 0x0b; CHIP REV 0xb0; PCI-E
> miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
> brgphy0: <BCM5754/5787 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
> 1000baseT-m
> aster, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto, auto-flow
> bge0: Ethernet address: 00:19:b9:37:0c:b21
>
[...]
When a remote link parter supports 1000baseT you should not use
manual media configuration. If you plug in the UTP cable to other
host, do you still see 100baseTX with auto-negotiation? I'm not
sure but I think this is first report that tells 1000baseT link
establishment issue. Did it ever work on FreeBSD?
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