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Cc: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 630m
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Frank Mayhar wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:14 -0800, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote:
>> The bfe driver is broken for machines with more than 1GB of RAM.
>> If that is the case you'll have to use the NDIS driver (or set
>> hw.physmem to limit memory to 1GB...:-P)
>
> Odd.  I'm running -current on an Inspiron 5160 that has a Broadcom
> BCM4401 and 2GB in it.  No problems so far, at least not with just
> booting and letting it sit idle.  I've been using wireless exclusively
> lately so I haven't been exercising the bfe driver, but you seem to
> imply that the machine would be DOA...

Not quite. but trying to bring up the bfe0 interface will result in an
interrupt storm.

     /Mikko
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