bce driver reports 'no carrier'

Having issues with a Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T PCI-X 64-bit integrated in a DELL PE2950. I always get no carrier. I'm using FreeBSD 7.1. CentOS doesn't seem to have an issue though.
 
If you haven't already, try $ ifconfig bce0 up and see if that gets you carrier. Substitute the name of your interface if it is different from bce0.
 
Do you get any *interesting* messages (related to your nic) in /var/log/messages if you do a verbose boot?
 
Hi had some problem related to yours. Checked that post on kerneltrap and others.

Is your system loosing carrier ? (I mean, are you successful getting carrier and then loosing it ?) I'm asking it because in my case the interface looses carrier, and checking dmesg I get a message telling me to check if_bce.c in the line X.
 
I've had an issue with the bge on 7.1

It worked fine on 7.0.

The only way I solved it was to cvsup w/stable file to 7_1_1 patch level 3
 
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