On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > > I will experiment with it tomorrow. Sorry about the delay. The problem persists with a fresh 6.1-STABLE kernel (rev 1.91.2.16 2006/08/10). When I force the duplex on both sides, I still have to manually bounce the interface state post-boot. I still get "bge1: 2 link states coalesced". It seems to perform well once that happens. If I leave it in auto-media, it comes up at 100/half duplex, which leads to unusable performance. 100/half duplex is technically impossible anyway. I doubt the cause of this problem is the driver at this point. It can't be the switch. This Broadcom chipset must just suck. I will just throw a dual-port em(4) in this machine instead. I will make sure to let our Dell sales rep know we're not interested in purchasing any more systems with Broadcom chips onboard. The PE 1950/2950 better not have this problem. ~BAS > > Meanwhile it should be pointed out that the new Dell 9th generation > PE{1,2}950 uses the 5708 integrated dual port. > > However the Addon-NIC option is still the dual port 5721. > > ~BAS >Received on Wed Aug 16 2006 - 21:18:00 UTC
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