Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:18:47 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> Cc: dcswest@gmx.net Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver Message-ID: <20030828054847.GA39024@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030826203122.dmlb@dmlb.org> References: <10490.1061924215@www25.gmx.net> <XFMail.20030826203122.dmlb@dmlb.org>
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--Nc+Vvx0JXuqp7Zy0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday, 26 August 2003 at 20:31:22 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > On 26-Aug-2003 dcswest@gmx.net wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Wondering whatever further may have come of this discussion regarding >> FreeBSD support of the built-in ethernet for the Dell Inspiron 8500 Note= book. >> Running a dual-boot system with MS Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.8 Release si= nce >> 5.1 >> wouldn't seem to install, but not even sure how to make use of drivers b= eyond >> including their device code in the kernel configuration file, which may = just >> be an issue with this current release. > > I fixed the RX problem yesterday. Take a look at > http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/ > and grab the lastest bcm_...tar.gz file. Untar this into /sys > then > cd /sys/modules/bcm > make > make install > kldload if_bcm > > This driver is for -current only. OK, I've tried this on my Inspiron 5100, and it works without any recognizable problems: $ time scp wantadilla:/dumpa/echunga/0/src.gz /dev/null src.gz 100% 28GB 10.0MB/s 48:41 =20 real 48m41.751s user 15m41.577s sys 4m23.766s netstat -i shows: input (bcm0) output packets errs bytes packets errs bytes colls 7452 0 11280248 5373 0 361578 0 7502 0 11358028 5416 0 364512 0 7435 0 11256590 5366 0 361116 0 7504 0 11361056 5416 0 364464 0 7460 0 11292512 5384 0 362352 0 7500 0 11355000 5412 0 364200 0 7451 0 11279390 5379 0 362022 0 7503 0 11358088 5414 0 364332 0 7417 0 11228874 5359 0 360654 0 I'd say that this cut is good enough to commit to -CURRENT. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --Nc+Vvx0JXuqp7Zy0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/TZe/IubykFB6QiMRAuM9AKCluv5AZl8OxHT55xd+0mmcq+pi5ACfXrHe X6CPf+E+H6xpkdDskm6UNuI= =qVBu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nc+Vvx0JXuqp7Zy0--
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