From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 07:20:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FBBA16A4B3; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.kukulies.org (www.kukulies.org [213.146.112.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B3E243FA3; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:20:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuku@www.kukulies.org) Received: from www.kukulies.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.kukulies.org (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h9AEKDgv025100; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:20:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kuku@www.kukulies.org) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by www.kukulies.org (8.12.10/8.12.6/Submit) id h9AEK7VR025095; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:20:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:20:07 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" To: Mathieu Arnold Message-ID: <20031010142006.GA25072@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <278796428.1065801563@andromede.reaumur.absolight.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <278796428.1065801563@andromede.reaumur.absolight.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: jphurl@comcast.net cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom 4401 driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:20:31 -0000 Did you enable the interface in the BIOS? I noticed that FreeBSD detects hardware even if disabled in the BIOS, it's just that the interrupts are not getting through. Just a wild guess. -- Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku (at) physik.rwth-aachen.de On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:59:24PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > > +-le 10/10/2003 13:49 +0000, jphurl@comcast.net écrivait : > | Hi, > | > | I was wondering if anybody had tried the Broadcom 4401 driver on > | a Dell 2400 Desktop machine? It has a 2.4 Mhz P4, > | > | If I enable the SMP & APIC_IO options the driver never receives any > | interrupts. Note that the Broadcom chip is functional in that I can > | send packets out, bu unfortunately I never receive any interrupts. > | > | If I turn off those options (they are tied together essentially) the > | driver works. > | > | Note that on a Dell 2350, which also has a P4, the driver works as well > | (with those options). > | > | Turning off the APIC_IO option essentially makes the interrupt scheme look > | like a traditional 8259A PIC. With APIC_IO enabled, interrupts get > | delivered from the APIC IO device to the Local APIC when an interrupt > | occurs. > | > | Any ideas would be most appreciated. > | > | Thanks. > | > | -- Jim > | > | P.S. The driver works great on the 2350. I ftp to/from it all the time > | and the performance is great. > > I won't be of any help, I'm using it in a few asus pundit boxes, and > they're only celeron 1.8G (but they work great though). > > -- > Mathieu Arnold