Hi Bill, >The BCM5704 has a smaller memory buffer space than earlier NICs, and the >bge(4) driver up to 5.1-RELEASE failed to take this into account. I >checked in a fix for this to 5-CURRENT and 4-STABLE yesterday. You can >apply the following workaround on your 5.1-RELEASE systems to fix this >(same workaround will work on 4.8-RELEASE as well): > >- Bring up /sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c in your favorite editor. - Search for >the following line of code: > > CSR_WRITE_4(sc, BGE_BMAN_MBUFPOOL_LEN, 0x18000); > >It should appear twice in the bge_blockinit() function. - Change 0x18000 >to 0x10000 in both places. - Recompile your kernel and/or if_bge.ko >module.
thanks for the information about this workaround. I will try it out tomorrow and give you a feedback. Regards, Dirk Janssen _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
