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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:37:13 +0800
From:      Aeefyu <afu-subscribed-list@aeefyu.net>
To:        Matt Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8, 4.9)
Message-ID:  <402C4669.6090003@aeefyu.net>
In-Reply-To: <004c01c3f169$7d6afed0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <XFMail.20040211081412.dmlb@dmlb.org> <402B0FEE.3020304@aeefyu.net> <004c01c3f169$7d6afed0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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Matt Emmerton wrote:
>>>>Duncan Barclay wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb
>>>>>
>>
>>Tried the bfe-4.8.tgz. Modules compiled flawlessly.
>>However once the bfe is "active", it will crash my machine silly (uptime
>>32s).
>>
>>Also there's a boot message of pci/bfe already exist and failed to
>>register if_bfe.ko

  Try taking "device bfe" out of your kernel and recompile.  Compiling 
devices
> in your kernel (statically) and then trying to load modules (dynamically) is
> not a good idea.

Did both methods, with kernel and took it out of kernel. Though the 
module conflicts is resolved with the method you suggested, it still 
crashed my Inspiron silly ... a unique (for me) crash though .. about 2 
pages of alien/ASCII characters fills up my screen, then uptime: ~ 30s 
is displayed

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