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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:14:56 -0700
From:      O'Shaughnessy Evans <shaug@aloha.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com>
Subject:   Re: watchdog timeout on Broadcom Gigabit NICs
Message-ID:  <20020829171456.GH27455@aloha.net>
In-Reply-To: <3D6D6F00.7050904@au.darkbluesea.com>
References:  <20020828225911.GC27455@aloha.net> <008101c24ef1$922b6ec0$6401a8c0@kc.rr.com> <3D6D6F00.7050904@au.darkbluesea.com>

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Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com> wrote:
> I missed the original post, but we had some trouble with the BGE cards too.
> Our fix (well, it makes it work acceptably, I don't know how "fixed" it is)
> was to make a change in the source code. The file is:
> 
> /usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h
> 
> you need to find the line
> 
> #define ETHER_ALIGN 2
> 
> and change the 2 to a 0.
[...]

Thanks.  I'll give that a shot.

So to put in that change, it looks like I can just recompile the kernel
and "make install".  Is there something else I need to do?  I'm an old
hand at some other Unices, but FreeBSD is pretty new to me.

Best regards.

-- 
= o'shaughnessy evans =                   = unix sys admin @ aloha.net =

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