Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:20:07 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom 4401 driver Message-ID: <20031010142006.GA25072@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <278796428.1065801563@andromede.reaumur.absolight.net> References: <278796428.1065801563@andromede.reaumur.absolight.net>
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Did you enable the interface in the BIOS? I noticed that FreeBSD detects hardware even if disabled in the BIOS, it's just that the interrupts are not getting through. Just a wild guess. -- Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku (at) physik.rwth-aachen.de On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:59:24PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > > +-le 10/10/2003 13:49 +0000, jphurl@comcast.net écrivait : > | Hi, > | > | I was wondering if anybody had tried the Broadcom 4401 driver on > | a Dell 2400 Desktop machine? It has a 2.4 Mhz P4, > | > | If I enable the SMP & APIC_IO options the driver never receives any > | interrupts. Note that the Broadcom chip is functional in that I can > | send packets out, bu unfortunately I never receive any interrupts. > | > | If I turn off those options (they are tied together essentially) the > | driver works. > | > | Note that on a Dell 2350, which also has a P4, the driver works as well > | (with those options). > | > | Turning off the APIC_IO option essentially makes the interrupt scheme look > | like a traditional 8259A PIC. With APIC_IO enabled, interrupts get > | delivered from the APIC IO device to the Local APIC when an interrupt > | occurs. > | > | Any ideas would be most appreciated. > | > | Thanks. > | > | -- Jim > | > | P.S. The driver works great on the 2350. I ftp to/from it all the time > | and the performance is great. > > I won't be of any help, I'm using it in a few asus pundit boxes, and > they're only celeron 1.8G (but they work great though). > > -- > Mathieu Arnold
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