Users Guide

7–Linux Driver Software
Driver Messages
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bnx2x Driver Defaults
Speed: Autonegotiation with all speeds advertised
Flow control: Autonegotiation with RX and TX advertised
MTU: 1500 (range is 46–9600)
RX Ring Size: 4078 (range is 0–4078)
TX Ring Size: 4078 (range is (MAX_SKB_FRAGS+4)–4078). MAX_SKB_FRAGS
varies on different kernels and different architectures. On a 2.6 kernel for x86,
MAX_SKB_FRAGS is 18.
Coalesce RX Microseconds: 25 (range is 0–3000)
Coalesce TX Microseconds: 50 (range is 0–12288)
Coalesce Statistics Microseconds: 999936 (approximately 1 second) (range
is 0–16776960 in increments of 256)
MSI-X: Enabled (if supported by the 2.6 kernel and the interrupt test passes)
TSO: Enabled
WoL: Disabled
Driver Messages
The following are the most common sample messages that may be logged in the
/var/log/messages file. Issue the 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.
 bnx2x Driver Messages
 bnx2i Driver Messages
 bnx2fc Driver Messages
bnx2x Driver Messages
The bnx2x driver messages include the following.
Driver Sign On
QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx 10 Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2x
v1.6.3c (July 23, 2007)
C-NIC Driver Sign On (bnx2 only)
QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx cnic v1.1.19 (Sep 25, 2007)