Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:40:25 +0100 From: "Duncan Barclay" <dmlb@dmlb.org> To: "James Nobis" <quel@quelrod.net>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: dcswest@gmx.net Subject: Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500 Message-ID: <009c01c36c6e$7a882150$4bc8a8c0@orac> References: <Pine.BSO.4.53.0308262257210.24387@quelrod.net>
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Hello James and Ken, Both of you are having real problems with the bcm driver and both of you have a Dell 8500. This is James' dmesg output, which from memory looks very similar to your Ken? > bcm0: <Broadcom 10/100 Base-T Ethernet> mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaffffff irq 11 > at device 0.0 on pci2 > bcm0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > panic: bcm0: Strange type for core 0xffffffff > I'm running 5.1-current from august 22nd. I can try pulling down the > latest 5.1 tommorow if you think this might help. This is the same result > as when I tried the driver from over a month ago. We think that the problem is something to do with the PCI configuration of the machine. The ethernet address being ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff indicates that the memory map is not right. > Before sending this email I was going to obtain a backtrace. I recompiled > with the symbol table and kernel debugger and now the driver appears to > work fine. Should it work this way? Hmm interesting. Ken can you try this and see if the driver then works? Duncan
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