Evening,

I am attempting to change the speed and duplex settings on a single interface on a bge card on an m3000 SPARC server. Currently the settings are as follows:

bge0            link: up        speed: 1000  Mbps       duplex: full
bge1            link: up        speed: 100   Mbps       duplex: half
bge2            link: up        speed: 1000  Mbps       duplex: full
bge3            link: unknown   speed: 0     Mbps       duplex: unknown
nxge0           link: down      speed: 1000  Mbps       duplex: full
nxge1           link: up        speed: 100   Mbps       duplex: full
nxge2           link: up        speed: 1000  Mbps       duplex: full
nxge3           link: down      speed: 1000  Mbps       duplex: full

root@dssbfw101a.myhughesnet.com$ grep bge /etc/path_to_inst
"/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/network@4" 0 "bge"
"/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/network@4,1" 1 "bge"
"/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@2/pci@0/network@4" 2 "bge"
"/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@2/pci@0/network@4,1" 3 "bge"

if you use autoneg on your switch (and the switch is capable of 1000full) the interface should use the desired settings!

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Thanks for the quick reply, I will be sure to tag my code in the future.

My team does not have access to change the config on the switch (which is currently set to 100 full). In the mean time I have created a startup script in /etc/rc2.d/ to make the changes, though I would still like to know how to make it work with the conifg file.

would be helpfull if you post the config file and what you've changed...

Here is the code located in the /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/bge.conf

bge-rx-rings            = 1;
bge-tx-rings            = 1;
# interface bge0
name="bge" parent="/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0" unit-address="4" \
adv_autoneg_cap=0 adv_1000fdx_cap=1 adv_1000hdx_cap=0 \
adv_100fdx_cap=0 adv_100hdx_cap=0 adv_100T4_cap=0 adv_10fdx_cap=0 \
adv_10hdx_cap=0;

# interface bge1
name="bge" parent="/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0" unit-address="4,1" \
adv_autoneg_cap=0 adv_1000fdx_cap=0 adv_1000hdx_cap=0 \
adv_100fdx_cap=1 adv_100hdx_cap=0 adv_100T4_cap=0 adv_10fdx_cap=0 \
adv_10hdx_cap=0;

# interface bge2
name="bge" parent="/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@2/pci@0" unit-address="4" \
adv_autoneg_cap=0 adv_1000fdx_cap=1 adv_1000hdx_cap=0 \
adv_100fdx_cap=0 adv_100hdx_cap=0 adv_100T4_cap=0 adv_10fdx_cap=0 \
adv_10hdx_cap=0;

# interface bge3
name="bge" parent="/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@2/pci@0" unit-address="4,1" \
adv_autoneg_cap=0 adv_1000fdx_cap=1 adv_1000hdx_cap=0 \
adv_100fdx_cap=0 adv_100hdx_cap=0 adv_100T4_cap=0 adv_10fdx_cap=0 \
adv_10hdx_cap=0;

and where are YOUR changes in the file? do you have a backup of the original file before you make any changes?

What I posted before are my changes, the original file includes only commented out material and the following:

#########################################################################
#
# The property below represents the list of subsystem vendor/device pairs
# with which driver operation is supported.  This list will be updated and
# extended as new subsystems are validated ...
#
bge-known-subsystems    = 0x108e1647,
                          0x108e1648,
                          0x108e16a7,
                          0x108e16a8,
                          0x17c20010,
                          0x17341013,
                          0x101402a6,
                          0x10f12885,
                          0x17c20020,
                          0x10b71006,
                          0x10280109,
                          0x1028865d,
                          0x0e11005a,
                          0x103c12bc;
#########################################################################