Paul Schmehl wrote:
I'm running 6.1 RELEASE (i386) and I've been replacing the if_bce.c file
with a slightly newer one that at least got the driver working without
hard lockups that required a reboot to fix. (Rather problematic on a
remotely located web server.)
If I download the latest driver from cvs (1.33), should I also replace
the if_bcefw.h and if_bcereg.h files with the newer versions? Will the
NIC work without creating new problems? Right now I get an occasional
"flapping" of the NIC link state (down, up , down, up, etc.) but it at
least works most of the time. I don't want to buildworld and get
suprised by a non-functioning NIC. :-)
If I use the newer versions, will I also need to use some other newer
files that are called by them? Or would it be better to upgrade the
entire box to 6.2?
FreeBSD www.stovebolt.com 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #2:
grep bce /var/run/dmesg.boot
bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem
0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9
bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0
bce0: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ad
bce1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem
0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci5
bce1: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
miibus1: <MII bus> on bce1
bce1: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ab
Hi Paul,
From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months the
driver in 6.2 is stable if you are not using jumbo frames and there is a
light-moderate network load.
However if you want to use Jumbo frames the driver is very unstable. I
posted a patch against 6.2 which should fix some load based issues in
the driver with standard frame sizes.
Tom
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