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Subject: Strange behaviour of bfe driver with Broadcom 4401
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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.

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