bcm driver, no collisions.

From: David Gilbert <dgilbert_at_dclg.ca>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:18:34 -0400
I have the new bcm drive installed on an inspirion 1100 laptop that's
plugged into a 100M hub.   The driver correctly sets half-duplex, but
the collisions never increase dispite heavy nfs traffic and dispite
the collision light (and other hosts on the hub) registering many
collisions.

I don't have any evidence that the interface is misbehaving.  In fact,
the performance seems good.

The card probes up as:

bcm0: <Broadcom 10/100 Base-T Ethernet> mem 0xfcffe000-0xfcffffff irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci2
bcm0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:db:e7:ac:9a
miibus0: <MII bus> on bcm0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

It has said (I don't know if this is relavant):

bcm0: watchdog timeout
bcm_watchdog: intstatus = 0x0

and the current netstat -i output (notice 0 collisions):

bcm0   1500 <Link#3>      00:0b:db:e7:ac:9a  2535135     0   517329     1     0
bcm0   1500 fe80:3::20b:d fe80:3::20b:dbff:        0     -        0     -     -
bcm0   1500 H48.C241.tor. H58.C241.tor.velo  2530012     -   517303     -     -

This is using bcm-0308252140.tar.gz and a -CURRENT cvsup'd yesterday.

Dave.

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