c-Class Connection Prob with HP NC326m Mezz Card

[John Cagle]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Greg Himes <greg at laaco.net> wrote:
>  Hello All,
>
>  I've got a chassis full of BL460c blades to which
>  I've just added the HP NC326m Dual Port 1 Gb mezzanine
>  card.  All of the blades running Windows Server 2003
>  work just fine.  The mission-critical FreeBSD blades
>  running 6.3-RELEASE see the cards as bge devices,
>  but both ports show status: no carrier.
>
>  I'm using the 1Gb ethernet pass-thru modules to a 1Gb
>  unmanaged switch.  Both the pass-thru module and the
>  switch show the ports connected at 1Gb.  But FreeBSD
>  still shows no carrier.
>
>  Anybody have any suggestions?

Hi Greg,

I would check two things:

1) has the bge driver been updated for 5715S support?
2) disable speed auto-negotiation in the driver, and in the switch.
If you use the pass-thru, it only functions at 1Gbe.  This might be
your problem.

John