6.2 bge regression

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Monday 29 January 2007 20:11, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Do you have a better idea than "between 6.1 and 6.2" as to when it broke?
> There was a fair amount of work on bge in that time so knowing CVSup dates
> or revisions could be useful.

No :(
I have updated to RELENG_6 as of today and will try that tomorrow morning.

If that doesn't work I'll try a binary search.

> What speed switch are you using?  Auto-negotiate or hard-wired?  If
> you have a managed switch, does switching between hard-wires and
> auto-negotiate have any effect?

Currently it's connected to a 10mbit hub :)
(Very crusty, I know)

I've tried hard wiring it to 10BaseT/UTP but no change.

> I have an older bge (BCM5705 A3 NIC/PHY) running 6.2 and the initial
> ifconfig (during rc.d processing) normally reports "no carrier" but
> it recovers in a second or so (it's OK by the time ntpdate wants
> the network).  I presume you find that ifconfig is still reporting
> no carrier once it's in multi-user mode.

I am booting install media, but this is long past the kernel startup - I run 
the CD/DVD shell and then run ifconfig.

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