On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Sean Bruno <seanwbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > A note from cluster...@freebsd.org > > It looks like there is some amount of instability or bugginess in some > of the Broadcom firmware(management) on the bce(4) chipeset shipped on > later generations of the Poweredge 2950 from Dell: > > bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2)> > > Specifically, we've seen that newer (9 and higher) have issues with the > doing initial setup and negotiation and that Dell did indeed release > newer firmware to fix the issues. This requires a full reboot into > Linux (probably centos6) to get the update to execute. > > Sean
More specifically.. this is the problematic revision: bce0: ASIC (0x57081020); Rev (B2); Bus (PCI-X, 64-bit, 133MHz); B/C (2.9.1); Bufs (RX:2;TX:2;PG:8); Flags (SPLT|MSI|MFW); MFW (NOT RUNNING!) and the upgrade takes you to bce0: ASIC (0x57081020); Rev (B2); Bus (PCI-X, 64-bit, 133MHz); B/C (5.0.4); Bufs (RX:2;TX:2;PG:8); Flags (SPLT|MSI|MFW); MFW (ipms 1.6.0) If you're seeing things like: bce0: ../../../dev/bce/if_bce.c(7906): Watchdog timeout occurred, resetting! over and over, then this would be a good thing to update. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
