From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 17:24:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 773AE16A4CE for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:24:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.valuehost.co.uk (mail.valuehost.co.uk [62.25.99.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 789A543D58 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:24:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bjorn@eikeland.info) Received: (qmail 55886 invoked by uid 89); 1 Feb 2004 01:23:58 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO beer.eikeland.info) (bjorn@eikeland.info@80.202.106.8) by mail.valuehost.co.uk with SMTP; 1 Feb 2004 01:23:58 +0000 Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 02:24:04 +0100 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org From: Bjorn Eikeland Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera7.23/FreeBSD M2 build 518 Subject: defect onboard broadcom causing boot hang X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 01:24:02 -0000 I've just changed to using freebsd on my desktop pc, my Asus A7V8X motherboad has a onboard Broadcom chip - this just stopped working under windows and turned into a unknown device. Asus or vendor's support never replied so I just picked up a new fxp card. However under FreeBSD it hangs for a while at boot between the ata4 and pci0 line form dmesg (ata4 is a Promise PDC20376 SATA150 w/ ad4 on it): ata4: at 0xec000000 on atapci0 ata4: [MPSAFE] pci0: at device 9.0 (no driver attached) (I have done some googling and found older Promice ide controllers to cause boot hangs on older versions of freebsd 4.4 - but not sata and 5.x so I'm hoping its the Broadcom chip) pciconf shows this device to be a: none0@pci0:9:0: class=0x008000 card=0x80008000 chip=0x800014e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' class = old I've tried loading the kernel module if_bfe (and if_bge) but still no new interface, windows used the card as a BCM440x - but the box does say gigabit lan. If it is possible to somehow get this card working I would really appreicate any help in "resurrecting" it, as I then can use my box as a bridge and do some traffic shaping on my lan :) Just skipping the device altogether and avoid the boot time hang is also looking very attractive! -Bjorn