Question about bce driver

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Thursday, July 12, 2007 16:11:11 -0700 David Christensen 
<davidch at broadcom.com> wrote:

>> Dave, perhaps you could answer my question?
>>
>> I'm using the 0.9.6 driver with 6.1 RELEASE.  I don't use
>> jumbo frames, so
>> the only problem I've experienced is the link state going up and down
>> occasionally.
>>
>> Does the more current driver solve the link state problem?
>> If it does, can
>> I use it on 6.1 merely by replacing the three files included
>> with it?  Or
>> are there includes that refer to other libraries that have
>> changed since
>> 6.1?
>>
>> Am I better off upgrading the entire system to 6.2?  (I
>> prefer not to do
>> this, because I have to take the site down to do so.
>> Patching files and
>> rebuilding world and kernel only takes the box out of service
>> during the
>> reboots.
>
> I've never seen the link up/down problem myself, so I don't know
> if any changes I've made have an effect on it.  You would need to
> change more than the bce driver since it depends upon the brgphy
> driver under sys/dev/mii which would also need to change.  There
> may be other dependencies upon changes in the 6.2 kernel which
> would prevent a quick/easy port without some debugging.
>
> Dave
>
Thanks for the quick answer.


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Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/