Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 17:10:55 +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: <20060402171055.GH20678@gremlin.foo.is> In-Reply-To: <20060402104703.GG20678@gremlin.foo.is> References: <20060329154012.GA20678@gremlin.foo.is> <20060401160919.Y81445@spirou.home> <1143943093.1568.2.camel@realtime.exit.com> <20060401180239.G18207@antec.home> <20060402104703.GG20678@gremlin.foo.is>
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Yeah, knocking hw.physmem down made bfe0 function... It's a pity having to choose like this. I guess I'll continue to use the USB ethernet adapter then. At least it's good to know that my onboard network adapter actually works. Baldur On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 10:47:03AM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote: > 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" > > _______________________________________________ > 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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