On Mon, 2007-Jan-29 17:01:05 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >I have some Supermicro P8SCT based systems I would like to run 6.2 on, >unfortunately something between 6.1 and 6.2 has broken bge on this board. > >This board has 2 bge's and the first one is on before the BIOS hands off to >the OS (I can see the activity light flash) but when the kernel attaches the >light stops flashing. An ifconfig says 'no carrier'.
Do you have a better idea than "between 6.1 and 6.2" as to when it broke? There was a fair amount of work on bge in that time so knowing CVSup dates or revisions could be useful. What speed switch are you using? Auto-negotiate or hard-wired? If you have a managed switch, does switching between hard-wires and auto-negotiate have any effect? I have an older bge (BCM5705 A3 NIC/PHY) running 6.2 and the initial ifconfig (during rc.d processing) normally reports "no carrier" but it recovers in a second or so (it's OK by the time ntpdate wants the network). I presume you find that ifconfig is still reporting no carrier once it's in multi-user mode. -- Peter Jeremy
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