Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8, 4.9)

[a***@aeefyu.net]

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 .

Responses are much appreciated! Thanks

[d***@dmlb.org]

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

Post by a***@aeefyu.net
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

[d***@dmlb.org]

I've put Pavel's patches at

http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bfe-4.8.tar.gz

Duncan

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Subject: Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8, 4.9)

Post by a***@aeefyu.net
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 .
Responses are much appreciated! Thanks
--
Feisal
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[a***@aeefyu.net]

Post by d***@dmlb.org
I've put Pavel's patches at
http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bfe-4.8.tar.gz

Duncan

Thanks. Appreciated. Will try it out and inform you and the List of my
findings

[a***@aeefyu.net]

Post by d***@dmlb.org
I've put Pavel's patches at
http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bfe-4.8.tar.gz

Built the module if_bfe manually and booted up my 4.9-p2-RELEASE on Dell
Inspiron 8500.

Feb 7 16:10:09 roxanne /kernel: bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet>
mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2
Feb 7 16:10:09 roxanne /kernel: bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:db:1a:ce:89
Feb 7 16:10:09 roxanne /kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on bfe0

Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: bfe0:
flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: tunnel inet -->
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: ether 00:0b:db:1a:ce:89
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: status: no carrier
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: vlan: 0 parent interface: <none>
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: ssid ""
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: stationname ""
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: channel 0 authmode NONE powersavemode OFF
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: wepmode OFF weptxkey 1

Note that it says status "no carrier". I managed to change this
behaviour by issuing "ifconfig bfe0 media 100BaseTX", which correctly
identified carrier as "Active", but a crash occurred a few second after
that. Tried other variations of ifconfig to change mediaoptions with the
same results. Putting if_bfe_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf resulted in
more crashes. Sighs ..

Help. Anyone .. ?