bge/ilo blues on Sun X2200 (fwd)

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Fri Nov 9 01:02:04 PST 2007


On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:22:42AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
> trying my luck here :-)
> 
> newer kernels (after Oct. 20) are breacking bge.
> i've checked the cvsdiffs, but nothing seems relevant.
> 
> the ilo (Integrated Lights Out) port, bge1, though not configured, gets
> configured to 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex>, and no magic will
> get it to 100/full-duplex, which is what the ilo was/is using.
> 
> this works fine on an Oct 20 system.
> 
> any ideas?

Try using the following in /boot/loader.conf and reboot:

hw.bge.allow_asf=1

The default is 0.

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