From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 00:39:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B1637B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dmlb.org (pc2-cmbg4-6-cust36.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [81.96.76.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C91043FAF for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:39:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@dmlb.org) Received: from slave.my.domain ([192.168.200.39]) by dmlb.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 19SXXn-0004RF-00; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:39:47 +0100 Received: from dmlb by slave.my.domain with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 19SXXn-000CJ3-00; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:39:47 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <16111.53383.625867.542328@canoe.velocet.net> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:39:47 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay To: David Gilbert Sender: Duncan Barclay cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: [hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:39:50 -0000 On 18-Jun-2003 David Gilbert wrote: >>>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Barclay writes: > > Duncan> I am in the process of rewriting this driver for FreeBSD. It > Duncan> can transmit, but RX is not yet going properly. As this is > Duncan> evening work, it's likely to take at elast another week. > >>> This is the onboard ethernet on my dell inspiron 8500 laptop and I > > I'm pretty sure this is the chipset on my Dell D800 laptop. I would > be interested in testing the drivers, too. I'm running 5.1-RELEASE. > > Dave. cool - are you a bit of hacker? If so, you should be able to cope with the request below, and the explaination. If not, or you don't understand the stuff below, then maybe the driver is not yet ready for you (no offence intended). The driver is not very ready (as I have some problems interrupt problems), but can transmit. Receive is not working - well not even written. If you can build http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bcm.tar.gz as a module, kldload it and then ifconfig bcm0 192.168.0.1 ping -c 1 192.168.0.0 and send me the copious dmesg output I would be very grateful. The mahcine I am developing on has a problem with interrupts. There is a problem with RX DMA descriptors that I haven't figured out. Sebastian sent me a log this morning and he has the same interrupt problem as I do. Thanks Duncan -- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | dmlb@dmlb.org | dmlb@freebsd.org|