Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 18:06:48 -0800 (PST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> To: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> Cc: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 630m Message-ID: <20060401180239.G18207@antec.home> In-Reply-To: <1143943093.1568.2.camel@realtime.exit.com> References: <20060329154012.GA20678@gremlin.foo.is> <20060401160919.Y81445@spirou.home> <1143943093.1568.2.camel@realtime.exit.com>
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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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