Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:37:17 +0900 (JST) From: Yoshinobu Inoue <shin@dhcp113143.nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, 20040726151944.GA37441@redtick.homeunix.com Subject: BCM4401-B0 card error on FreeBSD 5.2.1 Message-ID: <200408241337.i7ODbHMP001064@dhcp113143.nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp>
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I also had same problem but succeeded in making BCM4401-B0 work,
thanks to following information with this dirty quick patch.
--- src/sys/dev/bfe/if_bfereg.h.orig Wed Sep 10 03:17:22 2003
+++ src/sys/dev/bfe/if_bfereg.h Tue Aug 24 22:13:10 2004
@@ -393,7 +393,11 @@
#define BFE_REG_PCI 0x18002000
#define BCOM_VENDORID 0x14E4
+#if 0
#define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM4401 0x4401
+#else
+#define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM4401 0x170c
+#endif
#define PCI_SETBIT(dev, reg, x, s) \
pci_write_config(dev, reg, (pci_read_config(dev, reg, s) | (x)), s)
>I I just recompiled a 4.10 kernel with bfe support.
>I grab source code from http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bfe-4.8.tar.gz
>
>At boot time, I get:
>pci1: <unknown card> (vendor=0x14e4, dev=0x170c) at 14.0 irq 11
>
>When I try to insert the driver manually:
>module_register: module pci/bfe already exists!
>linker_file_sysinit "if_bfe.ko" failed to register! 17
>
>I think I'm gone go back to Linux...
>
>cheers,
>
>
>Guillaume
>
>
>Mark wrote:
>> You may have to build a kernel with the
>> "device bge" # gig cards
>> "device bfe" # 10- 100 cards
>> entries to build the moduals, I would have thought they
>> were with the base system. But I had to build a kernel
>> for the bfe modual to work.
>>
>> Side note: The bfe entry is not in the GENERIC kernel
>> on 4.10 but will build and work. The bge modual would not
>> find my broadcom 4401.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 05:00:39PM +0200, Guillaume Goutaudier wrote:
>>
>>>bge gives me exactly the same error message.
>>>And still nothing like "bge0: ..." in dmesg output.
>>>
>>>
>>>Try bge.
>>>
>>>On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:11:42PM +0200, Guillaume Goutaudier wrote:
>>>
>>>>/ Hi all,
>>>
>>>/>/
>>>/>/ I'm trying to move from Linux to FreeBSD on my compaq nx5000 laptop.
>>>/>/ The FreeBSD version I installed is 5.2.1.
>>>/>/
>>>/>/ I have a problem with the integrated broadcom BCM4401-B0 NIC.
>>>/>/
>>>/>/ This is not a BCM4401 but a BCM4401-B0 card (PCI ID = 0x170c), and
>>>/>/ the bfe driver does not seem to work:
>>>/>/
>>>/>/ In the dmesg output, I don't have a single line with "bfe0: ...".
>>>/>/ Instead, all I have is:
>>>/>/
>>>/>/ pci1: <network, ethernet> at device 14.0 (no driver attached)
>>>/>/
>>>/>/ When I try to install the bfe module manually, I get:
>>>/>/
>>>/>/ # kldload miibus.ko
>>>/>/ interface miibus.1 already present in the KLD 'kernel'!
>>>/>/ kldload: can't load miibus.ko: file exists
>>>/>/ # kldload if_bfe.ko
>>>/>/ module_register: module pci/bfe already exists!
>>>/>/ Module pci/bfe failed to register: 17
>>>/>/ module_register: module bfe/miibus already exists!
>>>/>/ Module bfe/miibus failed to register: 17
>>>/>/
>>>/>/ I'm not familiar at all with *BSD drivers stuff so any help will be
>>>/>/ REALLY appreciated ...
>>>/>/
>>>/>/ cheers,
>>>/>/
>>>/>/
>>>/>/ Guillaume
>>>/>/ /
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