Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:47:03 +0000 From: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is> To: Mikko =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 630m Message-ID: <20060402104703.GG20678@gremlin.foo.is> In-Reply-To: <20060401180239.G18207@antec.home> References: <20060329154012.GA20678@gremlin.foo.is> <20060401160919.Y81445@spirou.home> <1143943093.1568.2.camel@realtime.exit.com> <20060401180239.G18207@antec.home>
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I have 1280MB of ram, so that could be an explanation. Btw, I tried to use the ndis driver and the machine just panicked because some functions have not been implemented. Baldur On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 06:06:48PM -0800, Mikko Tyljrvi wrote: > On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Frank Mayhar wrote: > > >On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:14 -0800, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: > >>The bfe driver is broken for machines with more than 1GB of RAM. > >>If that is the case you'll have to use the NDIS driver (or set > >>hw.physmem to limit memory to 1GB...:-P) > > > >Odd. I'm running -current on an Inspiron 5160 that has a Broadcom > >BCM4401 and 2GB in it. No problems so far, at least not with just > >booting and letting it sit idle. I've been using wireless exclusively > >lately so I haven't been exercising the bfe driver, but you seem to > >imply that the machine would be DOA... > > Not quite. but trying to bring up the bfe0 interface will result in an > interrupt storm. > > > /Mikko > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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