Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:51:13 +1100 From: <freebsd@newmillennium.net.au> To: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Strange behaviour of bfe driver with Broadcom 4401 Message-ID: <200511141151.jAEBpBZD022043@locutus.newmillennium.net.au>
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I have recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 9300, so of course the first thing I did was gutted it and installed FreeBSD :) I am having some problems with the bfe driver on this machine (running 7-CURRENT as of a few minutes ago). When the system boots, bfe0 is down, and shows a 100mbit link (as expected). If I bring the interface up, either by throwing dhclient at it, or by manually doing an 'ifconfig bfe0 up', it loses carrier. Forcing the media to 100BaseTX or 10BaseT/UTP does not resolve the situation. Using the NDISulator does provide a workaround. I'll try Knoppix tomorrow when I get to work, and provide information on whether it works better. -- Alastair D'Silva mob: 0423 762 819 Networking Consultant fax: 0413 181 661 New Millennium Networking web: http://www.newmillennium.net.au
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