Nge nge ... ngeeeee!

Hi all.

I have problem with nge(7D). My machine has built in on board Nvidia GbE
ethernet and one external PCI 3com card (elxl(7D)).

When I boot the system, nge(7D) is showing me this on console and in the log:

nge: [ID 742679 kern.notice] NOTICE: nge0: link down

and then afer 1-2 sec:

nge: [ID 742679 kern.notice] NOTICE: nge0: link up 100Mbps Full-Duplex
(initialised)

.... and it works (after cca 1 minute, despite a fact that it is on cross over
cable and there is no Spanning Tree Protocol).

However, when I updated drivers and kernel with pca, nge is not working anymore.
There is no 'NOTICE: nge0 ...' messages during boot, but interface nge0 is
(according to ifconfig) up and running - I can ping my own address, but nothing
is coming to or from the wire - neither after 5 minutes. There is nothing in
syslog. Well, patchrm 122530-05 (nge update from Nov/03/2006) is the only
workaround - 122530-01 (11.10.0,REV=2005.06.22.03.40) which comes with stock
6/06 release works ok.

This is from kstat:

(root!hegel:adm)# kstat -m nge
module: nge instance: 0
name: chipinfo class: net
bus_size
bus_speed
bus_type
businfo 0
cache_line_size 0
command 7
crtime 33,451194225
device_id 87
hw_mac_addr 345977358529
latency_timer 0
phy_type 0
revision_id 163
snaptime 7207,244334013
subsystem_device_id 7195
subsystem_vendor_id 5243
vendor_id 4318

This is from prtconf -vD:
pci147b,1c1b, instance #0 (driver name: nge)
System software properties:
name='interrupt-priorities' type=int items=1
value=00000006
Hardware properties:
name='assigned-addresses' type=int items=10

value=82005010.00000000.fe029000.00000000.00001000.81005014.00000000.0000b400.00000000.00000008
name='reg' type=int items=15

value=00005000.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.02005010.00000000.00000000.00000000.00001000.01005014.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000008
name='compatible' type=string items=7
value='pci10de,57.147b.1c1b.a3' + 'pci10de,57.147b.1c1b' +
'pci147b,1c1b' + 'pci10de,57.a3' + 'pci10de,57' + 'pciclass,068000' +
'pciclass,0680'
name='model' type=string items=1
value='Bridge device'
name='power-consumption' type=int items=2
value=00000001.00000001
name='66mhz-capable' type=boolean
name='fast-back-to-back' type=boolean
name='devsel-speed' type=int items=1
value=00000000
name='interrupts' type=int items=1
value=00000001
name='max-latency' type=int items=1
value=00000014
name='min-grant' type=int items=1
value=00000001
name='subsystem-vendor-id' type=int items=1
value=0000147b
name='subsystem-id' type=int items=1
value=00001c1b
name='unit-address' type=string items=1
value='a'
name='class-code' type=int items=1
value=00068000
name='revision-id' type=int items=1
value=000000a3
name='vendor-id' type=int items=1
value=000010de
name='device-id' type=int items=1
value=00000057
Device Minor Nodes:
dev=(96,1)
dev_path=/pci@0,0/pci147b,1c1b@a:nge0
spectype=chr type=minor
dev_link=/dev/nge0
dev=(96,1002)
dev_path=<clone>
Device Minor Layered Under:
mod=udp accesstype=chr
dev_path=/pseudo/udp@0
dev=(96,1003)
dev_path=<clone>
Device Minor Layered Under:
mod=udp6 accesstype=chr
dev_path=/pseudo/udp6@0
dev=(96,1001)
dev_path=<clone>
Device Minor Layered Under:
mod=udp accesstype=chr
dev_path=/pseudo/udp@0



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