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Date:      Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:00:03 -0000
From:      "Duncan Barclay" <dmlb@dmlb.org>
To:        "Al-Afu" <afu-subscribed-list@aeefyu.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8, 4.9)
Message-ID:  <002e01c3ecb9$85cc4ed0$a7ac77c1@DJK1Comp>
References:  <20040206064417.3FBAF19306@mailhub.webcraft99.com>

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From: "Al-Afu" <afu-subscribed-list@aeefyu.net>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 6:44 AM


> In Reference To:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-September/003151.html
>
> the above specifies a patch to include the bfe driver into a 4.8 kernel.
How
> do I proceed with this?
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but I am not familiar with kernel's patches, hence
the
> reason I am asking for some guidance or pointers.
>
> Any help towards this will be greatly appreciated. Been actively trying to
> solve the Broadcom 4401 NIC on my Dell 8500, and the above link seems to
be
> the closest I can get to. I cant afford to upgrade to -CURRENT as my
> notebook is almost the mirror to all the production servers I have .

There are another set of patches that "Pavel" prepared a couple of weeks
ago. I need to get 4.9 on my laptop and giv e them a whirl and then commit
them. I may be able to this over the weekend. I will put the patches up on a
web site somewhere when I get home from work tonight.

Duncan



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