Hi, I'm a FreeBSD newbie (I use GNU/Linux) so I hope my questions won't be too silly... So, to test freebsd I installed 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell Latitude D600 laptop. No problem to run X. I first felt in a trap choosing "Upgrade" in sysinstall... So I re-installed again, then follow instruction from the hand-book to buildworld, buildkernel, etc. No problem. The main pb I have is that the ethernet interface (bge0) works, but breakdown a few minutes after I boot. with this message (repeated) in the first VT : "bge0: PHY read timeout". I tried googling to find out a solution but I must admit I'm a little bit lost. Do one has an idea for this ? The problem happens with or without ACPI support. My network interface is : Broadcom BCM5705 A1, ASIC rev. 0x3001 I upgraded my BIOS with the last version available. ifconfig tell me : "media : Ethernet autoselect". I would try to force to 100MB but I can't find where to change this setting. Appart of this issue I feel FreeBSD to be a good OS, filesystem seems very clean and I like the "ports" concept. St?phane THOMAS The second point is just a question I have : what's the difference between 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-STABLE ? Stephane THOMAS TCS Desktop Team
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:00:43PM +0100, Stephane THOMAS wrote:> The main pb I have is that the ethernet interface (bge0) works, but > breakdown a few minutes after I boot. with this message (repeated) in the > first VT : "bge0: PHY read timeout". I tried googling to find out a > solution but I must admit I'm a little bit lost. Do one has an idea for > this ? The problem happens with or without ACPI support.Check the mailing list archives: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/ I've seen some messages concerning bge recently.> My network interface is : Broadcom BCM5705 A1, ASIC rev. 0x3001 > I upgraded my BIOS with the last version available. > ifconfig tell me : "media : Ethernet autoselect". I would try to force to > 100MB but I can't find where to change this setting.Have a look at the bge(4) and ifconfig(8) manual pages. What you need is the "media" parameter to ifconfig, which you should set to 100baseTX.> The second point is just a question I have : what's the difference between > 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-STABLE ?This can be somewhat confusing, especially since you sometimes also see CVS tags. Have a look at appendix A.7 of the FreeBSD handbook. You'll find the english handbook at /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html, but you can also access it via the FreeBSD website: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070129/08dd6168/attachment.pgp