Allied Telesis AT-2973T/4, AT-2973SX Checking Driver Messages, Checking the bnx2 Driver Messages

Chapter 6: Installing the Linux Drivers

Checking Driver Messages

Coalesce RX Frames: 6 (range is 0–255)

Coalesce RX Frames IRQ: 6 (range is 0–255)

Coalesce TX Microseconds: 80 (range is 0–1023)

Coalesce TX Microseconds IRQ: 80 (range is 0–1023)

Coalesce TX Frames: 20 (range is 0–255)

Coalesce TX Frames IRQ: 20 (range is 0–255)

Coalesce Statistics Microseconds: 999936 (approximately 1 second) (range is 0–16776960 in increments of 256)

MSI: Enabled (if supported by the 2.6 kernel and the interrupt test passes)

TSO: Enabled (on 2.6 kernels)

WoL: Initial setting based on NVRAM's setting

The following are the most common sample messages that may be logged in the /var/log/messages file for the bnx2 and bnx2i drivers. Use dmesg -

n<level> command to control the level at which messages appear on the console. Most systems are set to level 6 by default. To see all messages, set the level higher. See the following sections:

“Checking the bnx2 Driver Messages” on page 78

“Checking bnx2i Driver Messages” on page 79

Checking the bnx2 Driver Messages

The following are the most common bnx2 driver messages:

Driver Sign on

Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.6.3c (July 23, 2007)

CNIC Driver Sign on

Broadcom NetXtreme II cnic v1.1.19 (Sep 25, 2007)

NIC Detected

eth#: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B0) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem f6000000, IRQ 16, node addr 0010180476ae

cnic: Added CNIC device: eth0

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