From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 22:48:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA0516A4BF for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:48:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E351943F93 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:48:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6A49C53154; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:18:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:18:47 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Duncan Barclay Message-ID: <20030828054847.GA39024@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <10490.1061924215@www25.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Nc+Vvx0JXuqp7Zy0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: dcswest@gmx.net Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:48:52 -0000 --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--