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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:02:47 +0900
From:      Yonghyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Broadcomm bge in Dell 745/FreeBSD 10-STABLE = no gigabit Ethernet
Message-ID:  <20140310080247.GA1399@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403072139050.97115@familysquires.net>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403072139050.97115@familysquires.net>

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On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:41:57PM -0500, Michael L. Squires wrote:
> 
> I'm unable to get a Broadcom DCM5754 GigeE (allegedly) interface on a Dell
> 745 desktop to talk gigabit Ethernet.
> 
> It works fine at 100 Mbits/full duplex and works fine, to the extent that 
> one
> can tell, under Windows 7 x64 and Centos 5.
> 
> Attempts to force it to gigabit through options in rc.conf fail.
> 
> The errors look like those reported some years ago for another 745, but I 
> would have guessed that that particular problem no longer existed.
> 
> I have a workaround (installing an Intel 1000 MT into a PCI slot) so this is
> not a critical problem. I'm using the 745 to control an HP MSL6000 tape 
> library (2 LTO-3 drives) and amanda from ports and dump are working without
> problems, thank you very much.
> 
> Mike Squires
> mikes@siralan.org
> UN*X at home
> Since 1986
> 
> >From dmesg:
> 
> FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE #0 r262738: Tue Mar  4 11:42:23 EST 2014
>     root@testbsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TESTBSD amd64
> FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6400  @ 2.13GHz (2126.49-MHz K8-class 
> CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6f2  Family = 0x6  Model = 0xf  Stepping 
>   = 2
>   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> avail memory = 4038057984 (3850 MB)
> 
> bge0: CHIP ID 0x0000b002; ASIC REV 0x0b; CHIP REV 0xb0; PCI-E
> miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
> brgphy0: <BCM5754/5787 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
> 1000baseT-m
> aster, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto, auto-flow
> bge0: Ethernet address: 00:19:b9:37:0c:b21
> 

[...]

When a remote link parter supports 1000baseT you should not use
manual media configuration.  If you plug in the UTP cable to other
host, do you still see 100baseTX with auto-negotiation?  I'm not
sure but I think this is first report that tells 1000baseT link
establishment issue.  Did it ever work on FreeBSD?



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