This is for the archives: problem was identified as a bad motherboard/onboard NIC and has been replaced (thanks Silicon Mechanics!). Everything is going smoothly now!
-- Robert > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Wojciechowski > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:32 AM > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: 6.1-RC bge RX CPU self-diagnostic failed > > I'm running into a problem with some new dual Opteron servers we just > received yesterday on 6.1-STABLE (-RC now I suppose) amd64 updated as of > today. When booting, it sometimes fails to initialize the onboard > Broadcom gigabit Ethernet: > > bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem > 0xfc9f0000-0xfc9fffff irq 26 at device 5.0 on pci2 > bge0: firmware handshake timed out > bge0: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed! > bge0: chip initialization failed > device_attach: bge0 attach returned 6 > bge1: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem > 0xfc9e0000-0xfc9effff irq 27 at device 5.1 on pci2 > bge1: firmware handshake timed out > bge1: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed! > bge1: chip initialization failed > device_attach: bge1 attach returned 6 > > Rebooting until the card is initialized seems to allow me to use those > interfaces. > > I have 2 other servers with identical BCM5704C chips running on dual > Opterons on 6.1-STABLE amd64 and they seem to work fine on those. I have > two of these new servers but have only seen this problem on one of them > today. I'm trying to duplicate it on both boxes as we speak. > > Any ideas on what I can do? Thanks! > > -- Robert _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
