Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi! I recently installed OpenBSD 5.6 on an amd64 platform. Everything went smoothly. After installation, at the first boot, OpenBSD updated the firmware of some devices. I found this strange... I had to reinstall this machine with CentOS and now the NIC does not work. I reinstalled OpenBSD again

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread John Merriam
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Miguel Barbosa Gon?alves wrote: > Hi! > > I recently installed OpenBSD 5.6 on an amd64 platform. Everything went > smoothly. After installation, at the first boot, OpenBSD updated the > firmware of some devices. I found this strange... > > I had to reinstall this machine with

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
2015-03-13 15:56 GMT+00:00 John Merriam : > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Miguel Barbosa Gon?alves wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I recently installed OpenBSD 5.6 on an amd64 platform. Everything went > > smoothly. After installation, at the first boot, OpenBSD updated the > > firmware of some devices. I found thi

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread John Merriam
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Miguel Barbosa Gon?alves wrote: > 2015-03-13 15:56 GMT+00:00 John Merriam : > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Miguel Barbosa Gon?alves wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I recently installed OpenBSD 5.6 on an amd64 platform. > Everything went > > smoothly. After in

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread Steven McDonald
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:48:02 + Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves wrote: > I recently installed OpenBSD 5.6 on an amd64 platform. Everything went > smoothly. After installation, at the first boot, OpenBSD updated the > firmware of some devices. I found this strange... OpenBSD runs fw_update(8) on firs

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread Kevin Kwan
Try booting it up using a more modern OS live image (like, say, Ubuntu 14 or Fedora 21), and then go back to CentOS. CentOS itself is kind of old even as far as Linux is concerned. It could be as simple as some internal register not being re-initialized properly after the swap. What does the rel

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi! Installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 (amd64) and the NIC does not work: it does not configure through DHCP and it simply does not work if I set a static IP address. Ran FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64) Live CD and the network worked fine. It seems this machine does not like Linux. I have no more ideas about what m

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread Kevin Kwan
Eh...this won't happen to be a Broadcom Tigon (tg3), would it? I remember that due to some licensing quirk, more than a few Linux distros do not bundle the firmware to make certain NICs work out of the box, at least not until you explicitly install firmware-bad or whatever the heck the Linux guys

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi Kevin! It is indeed a tg3. I have another two machines using this driver and there's a package installed for the firmware. I really don't recall if the firmware was installed. The strange thing that happened on this machine was that the NIC sent packets but never received the replies. I know t

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread Kevin Kwan
Uh...just out of curiosity, you did run pfctl -d to disable the firewall first, right? On Mar 13, 2015 6:55 PM, "Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves" wrote: > Hi Kevin! > > It is indeed a tg3. I have another two machines using this driver and > there's a package installed for the firmware. I really don't r

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
2015-03-14 0:17 GMT+00:00 Kevin Kwan : > of curiosity, you did run pfctl -d to disable the firewall first, right? firewalls disabled of course :-)

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/13/15 15:38, Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves wrote: > Hi! > > Installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 (amd64) and the NIC does not work: it does not > configure through DHCP and it simply does not work if I set a static IP > address. > > Ran FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64) Live CD and the network worked fine. > > It seems

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-14 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
No dia 14/03/2015, às 01:50, Nick Holland escreveu: >> On 03/13/15 15:38, Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 (amd64) and the NIC does not work: it does not >> configure through DHCP and it simply does not work if I set a static IP >> address. >> >> Ran FreeBSD 1

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-03-13, Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves wrote: > Hi! > > I recently installed OpenBSD 5.6 on an amd64 platform. Everything went > smoothly. After installation, at the first boot, OpenBSD updated the > firmware of some devices. I found this strange... OpenBSD does not update firmware on devices. S

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-03-14, Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves wrote: > No dia 14/03/2015, às 01:50, Nick Holland > escreveu: > >>> On 03/13/15 15:38, Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 (amd64) and the NIC does not work: it does not >>> configure through DHCP and it simply does not

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-14 Thread Kevin Kwan
Well, okay. The assumption is OpenBSD might/might not have done this to the hardware. Okay, I am an SA, I am a Linux old-hand and an OpenBSD newb, I like solving problems, let's take this on - frankly, the Linux guys will most likely send him back here if he asks it on their lists. Okay, first o