Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:27:14 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Genius Freak <geniusfreak@gmail.com> Subject: Re: System freeze when useing bfe (Broadcom BCM440x) driver Message-ID: <200408280027.14207.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <97f8dd040826235372388dea@mail.gmail.com> References: <97f8dd040826235372388dea@mail.gmail.com>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:23, Genius Freak wrote: > I just installed 5.2.1 RELEASE from CD on my dell inspiron 1100 > > I found some guides online and used them to create a custom kernel for > the laptop, > it compiled and booted fine however it freezes whenever I use the network > card. (example: running "pkg_add -r cvsup" causes it to freeze ) > > I have compiled a second kernel while running the first to see it it > was just a CPU or resource issue but it went fine so it seems to me to > be the driver. > > I have attached the kernel config file for reference. > > Please tell me if there are any tricks to get this working properly. The bfe driver in 5.2.1 is faulty - if it gets a dud packet it will get int= o=20 an infinite loop. =46etch rev 1.6 (5.2.1 has 1.4) from here -> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sys/dev/bfe/if_bfe.c?r= ev=3D1.6&content-type=3Dtext/plain and put it in /usr/src/sys/dev/bfe then rebuild your kernel, or if you used= =20 the KLD for bfe do.. cd /usr/src/sys/modules/bfe make make install kldunload if_bfe kldload if_bfe Then cvsup to RELENG_5 :) =2D --=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBL0vK5ZPcIHs/zowRAtX2AJoDViLfoASo9FhORzatQJQHqEvDRACfVAiK yOFR0mOV0mdz3MTb38WKNtU=3D =3DsZk+ =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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