I have just committed a fix for the BCM5701 + PCI-X problems. It
is in the following revisions, and it should reach the mirror sites
within an hour or so:
src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c 1.14
src/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h 1.5
Could those of you who were experiencing this problem please tr
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If the bge's API allows it, you could setup a receive descriptor with
> a length of 14 bytes (size of ethernet header), and start the next
> descripter 2 bytes after it (at a 16 byte offset from the front of the
> mbu
John Polstra writes:
> On the i386, living with the misalignment is probably the best
> solution, unfortunately. The only alternatives I can think of are:
>
> - bcopy the packet up by 2 bytes after reception to align the
> payload, or
>
> - disable PCI-X mode on the bus
>
At 9:45 AM -0700 6/24/02, John Polstra wrote:
>I agree with you about the noise. I think I'd rather spend the day
>in a room with a swarm of hornets than with the Dell 2650. When I
>was working with that machine I wore a pair of industrial-strength
>ear-protecting headphones, and my ears were st
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> John.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> I changed ETHER_ALIGN to 0 and the driver started to work.
I'm glad to hear it. Thanks for the report.
> I am not sure about the performance since I seem to get
> only 50 Mbit over a 100 Mbit li
John.
Thanks for the tip.
I changed ETHER_ALIGN to 0 and the driver started to work.
I am not sure about the performance since I seem to get
only 50 Mbit over a 100 Mbit line. However this is much better
than the timeout warnings...
Thanks for the input. It is really appreciated.
Do you need
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