freebsd stable - May 2006 - 6.1-RC bge RX CPU self-diagnostic failed

I'm running into a problem with some new dual Opteron servers we just
received yesterday on 6.1-STABLE (-RC now I suppose) amd64 updated as of
today. When booting, it sometimes fails to initialize the onboard
Broadcom gigabit Ethernet:

bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem
0xfc9f0000-0xfc9fffff irq 26 at device 5.0 on pci2
bge0: firmware handshake timed out
bge0: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed!
bge0: chip initialization failed
device_attach: bge0 attach returned 6
bge1: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem
0xfc9e0000-0xfc9effff irq 27 at device 5.1 on pci2
bge1: firmware handshake timed out
bge1: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed!
bge1: chip initialization failed
device_attach: bge1 attach returned 6

Rebooting until the card is initialized seems to allow me to use those
interfaces.

I have 2 other servers with identical BCM5704C chips running on dual
Opterons on 6.1-STABLE amd64 and they seem to work fine on those. I have
two of these new servers but have only seen this problem on one of them
today. I'm trying to duplicate it on both boxes as we speak.

Any ideas on what I can do? Thanks!

-- Robert

Hi!
> I'm running into a problem with some new dual Opteron servers we just
> received yesterday on 6.1-STABLE (-RC now I suppose) amd64 updated as of
> today. When booting, it sometimes fails to initialize the onboard
> Broadcom gigabit Ethernet:
Aha, similar to my problem (also broadcom, but 5.4p8 and some
other board):

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=90086

-- 
pi@c0mplx.org           +49 171 3101372                        14 years to go !

This is for the archives: problem was identified as a bad
motherboard/onboard NIC and has been replaced (thanks Silicon
Mechanics!). Everything is going smoothly now!

-- Robert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Wojciechowski
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:32 AM
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: 6.1-RC bge RX CPU self-diagnostic failed
> 
> I'm running into a problem with some new dual Opteron servers we just
> received yesterday on 6.1-STABLE (-RC now I suppose) amd64 updated as
of
> today. When booting, it sometimes fails to initialize the onboard
> Broadcom gigabit Ethernet:
> 
> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem
> 0xfc9f0000-0xfc9fffff irq 26 at device 5.0 on pci2
> bge0: firmware handshake timed out
> bge0: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed!
> bge0: chip initialization failed
> device_attach: bge0 attach returned 6
> bge1: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem
> 0xfc9e0000-0xfc9effff irq 27 at device 5.1 on pci2
> bge1: firmware handshake timed out
> bge1: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed!
> bge1: chip initialization failed
> device_attach: bge1 attach returned 6
> 
> Rebooting until the card is initialized seems to allow me to use those
> interfaces.
> 
> I have 2 other servers with identical BCM5704C chips running on dual
> Opterons on 6.1-STABLE amd64 and they seem to work fine on those. I
have
> two of these new servers but have only seen this problem on one of
them
> today. I'm trying to duplicate it on both boxes as we speak.
> 
> Any ideas on what I can do? Thanks!
> 
> -- Robert