From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 10 05:52:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948B916A407 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:52:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5832943D45 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:52:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1GMIFA-000No4-ME for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:52:36 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1B346830-A705-4E92-8532-0256A64838BB@shire.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 23:52:36 -0600 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: bge0: PHY read timed out X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:52:37 -0000 I have a machine that is acting up. It was doing this a couple weeks ago and I replaced the motherboard thinking that maybe the physical ethernet port was going bad (connector or chip). The new motherboard is starting to act up the same way after a week or two of running fine and I am wondering if something else might be the issue. After the uname I list the stuff from the syslog before it goes off the net and my auto rebooter power strip thinks it has crashed and forces a reboot (which I have now turned off so I can go in and look more next time it happens). This did not happen for the last week or two and all of a sudden happened about 5 times today... # uname -a FreeBSD whitwell.shire.net 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #1: Fri May 19 01:50:39 MDT 2006 chad@mlg3.shire.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ WHITWELL i386 # Sep 9 20:49:02 whitwell kernel: bge0: PHY read timed out Sep 9 20:49:02 whitwell last message repeated 3 times Sep 9 20:49:02 whitwell kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN Sep 9 20:49:04 whitwell kernel: bge0: PHY read timed out What does this message mean? PHY read timed out? I did a google on it but the issues were various other things. Could this be a bad cable? Thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net