Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:58:13 -0800 From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Mikko =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> Cc: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 630m Message-ID: <1143943093.1568.2.camel@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <20060401160919.Y81445@spirou.home> References: <20060329154012.GA20678@gremlin.foo.is> <20060401160919.Y81445@spirou.home>
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On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:14 -0800, Mikko Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi 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... --=20 Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/
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