bce(4) on the Dell PE 2950

[Vladislav Prodan]

> On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 13:49 +0100, Nicolas de Bari Embriz Garcia Rojas
> wrote:
> > What is the latest stable firmware and in what firmware version you get
> > this issue ?
> > 
> > regards
> 
> 
> This ridiculous web link *should* take you there to get new firmware:
> http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/555/DriverDetails/Product/poweredge-2950?driverId=P32M4&osCode=RH60&fileId=3230162487&languageCode=EN&categoryId=NI
> 
> Known "good" firmware output from bce(4) on bootup:
> 
> bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2)> mem
> 0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9
> miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0
> bce0: Ethernet address: 00:18:8b:52:0e:42
> bce0: ASIC (0x57081020); Rev (B2); Bus (PCI-X, 64-bit, 133MHz); B/C
> (5.0.4); Bufs (RX:2;TX:2;PG:8); Flags (SPLT|MSI|MFW); MFW (ipms 1.6.0)
> bce1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2)> mem
> 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci5
> miibus1: <MII bus> on bce1
> bce1: Ethernet address: 00:18:8b:52:0e:40
> bce1: ASIC (0x57081020); Rev (B2); Bus (PCI-X, 64-bit, 133MHz); B/C
> (5.0.4); Bufs (RX:2;TX:2;PG:8); Flags (SPLT|MSI|MFW); MFW (ipms 1.6.0) 


Hello
I downloaded the latest driver available online Dell - 7.6.15.
I installed a Windows Live CD.
Now I have a B/C (7.4.0), and you have the above text - 5.0.4

Now I have, like, the timeouts are gone, but the VLANs on bce something does not work ...




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