On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: > > I'm running 6.1 RELEASE (i386) and I've been replacing the > > if_bce.c file with a slightly newer one that at least got the > > driver working without hard lockups that required a reboot to > > fix. (Rather problematic on a remotely located web server.) > > > > If I download the latest driver from cvs (1.33), should I also > > replace the if_bcefw.h and if_bcereg.h files with the newer > > versions? Will the NIC work without creating new problems? > > Right now I get an occasional "flapping" of the NIC link state > > (down, up , down, up, etc.) but it at least works most of the > > time. I don't want to buildworld and get suprised by a > > non-functioning NIC. :-) > > > > If I use the newer versions, will I also need to use some other > > newer files that are called by them? Or would it be better to > > upgrade the entire box to 6.2? > > > > FreeBSD www.stovebolt.com 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 > > #2: > > > > grep bce /var/run/dmesg.boot > > bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem > > 0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9 > > bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz > > miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0 > > bce0: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ad > > bce1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem > > 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci5 > > bce1: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz > > miibus1: <MII bus> on bce1 > > bce1: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ab > > Hi Paul, > > From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months > the driver in 6.2 is stable if you are not using jumbo frames and > there is a light-moderate network load. > > However if you want to use Jumbo frames the driver is very > unstable. I posted a patch against 6.2 which should fix some load > based issues in the driver with standard frame sizes. > > Tom
Paul, I was never able to solve the link up/link down problems with the driver....I was using the drivers from STABLE for a while, and without jumbo frames everything worked somewhat ok most of the time....the ultimate solution was to just get the intel PCI-X card and stop using the broadcoms. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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