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Date:      Sat, 9 Sep 2006 23:52:36 -0600
From:      "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   bge0: PHY read timed out
Message-ID:  <1B346830-A705-4E92-8532-0256A64838BB@shire.net>

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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


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