Re: [netops] Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-13 Thread Yi-Hua Edward Yang
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Mmmm, the 5787. Such is the way of ordering high end Dell workstations tested only with RHEL3 and Windows XP. ~BAS Actually the Dell Precision 390 has 5754, not 5787, but the driver recognized it wrongly. Also, FreeBSD 6.1 does not panic because driver

Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-12 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
Kevin, On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:21:27AM -0500, Kevin Kramer wrote: K here is a picture of a panic i get on a Dell Precision 390 booting K 6.2-beta2_amd64. hope this helps. K K http://users.centtech.com/~kramer/broadcom/bge_prec390.jpg Well, although the message above is about bge(4)

Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-12 Thread Kevin Kramer
I'll try that, but we received a response from David C. and few weeks ago (on another thread) that the BCE driver should be picking up this NIC. The latest 6.1 stable does not panic with the NIC disabled in the BIOS. Gleb Smirnoff wrote: Kevin, On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:21:27AM -0500,

Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-12 Thread Scott Long
Yeah, the error is probably a PCI error coming from the chipset, not a RAM error. Unfortunately, there are a lot of mystery reasons why a PCI error might get triggered, and the message isn't enough to say what exactly it is. However, one simple test you can to is to disable the EISA device in

Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-12 Thread Kevin Kramer
There is no line for EISA in the GENERIC config file, nor can I find it in device.hints. The markings on the chip say it is a BCM5754, but it's being recognized as BCM5787. I currently have the machine at the db prompt if someone can walk me through getting valuable information.

Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-12 Thread Tom Judge
Scott Long wrote: Bill Moran wrote: I've copied many of the people who I've been working with directly on this issue. Can anyone provide a status update on these problems? Discussion seems to have stopped since Oct 5. Any new patches to test? I'm actively working on fixing the driver

Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-12 Thread Scott Long
Tom Judge wrote: Scott Long wrote: Bill Moran wrote: I've copied many of the people who I've been working with directly on this issue. Can anyone provide a status update on these problems? Discussion seems to have stopped since Oct 5. Any new patches to test? I'm actively working on

Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-11 Thread Scott Long
Bill Moran wrote: I've copied many of the people who I've been working with directly on this issue. Can anyone provide a status update on these problems? Discussion seems to have stopped since Oct 5. Any new patches to test? I'm actively working on fixing the driver right now. Scott

Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-11 Thread Kevin Kramer
here is a picture of a panic i get on a Dell Precision 390 booting 6.2-beta2_amd64. hope this helps. http://users.centtech.com/~kramer/broadcom/bge_prec390.jpg -- Kevin Kramer Sr. Systems Administrator 512.418.5725 Centaur Technology, Inc. www.centtech.com Scott

RE: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-11 Thread David Christensen
I've copied many of the people who I've been working with directly on this issue. Can anyone provide a status update on these problems? Discussion seems to have stopped since Oct 5. Any new patches to test? I'm sorry but I'm absolutely swamped with my day job 6.5 days a week and

RE: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-11 Thread David Christensen
Bill Moran wrote: I've copied many of the people who I've been working with directly on this issue. Can anyone provide a status update on these problems? Discussion seems to have stopped since Oct 5. Any new patches to test? I'm actively working on fixing the driver

Re: [netops] Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Mmmm, the 5787. Such is the way of ordering high end Dell workstations tested only with RHEL3 and Windows XP. ~BAS On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 11:21 -0500, Kevin Kramer wrote: here is a picture of a panic i get on a Dell Precision 390 booting 6.2-beta2_amd64. hope this helps.