[hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday, 26 August 2003 at 20:31:22 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote:
>
> On 26-Aug-2003 dcswest at gmx.net wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Wondering whatever further may have come of this discussion regarding
>> FreeBSD support of the built-in ethernet for the Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook.
>> Running a dual-boot system with MS Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.8 Release since
>> 5.1
>> wouldn't seem to install, but not even sure how to make use of drivers beyond
>> including their device code in the kernel configuration file, which may just
>> be an issue with this current release.
>
> I fixed the RX problem yesterday. Take a look at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/
> and grab the lastest bcm_...tar.gz file. Untar this into /sys
> then
> cd /sys/modules/bcm
> make
> make install
> kldload if_bcm
>
> This driver is for -current only.

OK, I've tried this on my Inspiron 5100, and it works without any
recognizable problems:

  $ time scp wantadilla:/dumpa/echunga/0/src.gz /dev/null
  src.gz                         100%   28GB  10.0MB/s   48:41    
  real    48m41.751s
  user    15m41.577s
  sys     4m23.766s

netstat -i shows:

            input         (bcm0)           output
   packets  errs      bytes    packets  errs      bytes colls
      7452     0   11280248       5373     0     361578     0
      7502     0   11358028       5416     0     364512     0
      7435     0   11256590       5366     0     361116     0
      7504     0   11361056       5416     0     364464     0
      7460     0   11292512       5384     0     362352     0
      7500     0   11355000       5412     0     364200     0
      7451     0   11279390       5379     0     362022     0
      7503     0   11358088       5414     0     364332     0
      7417     0   11228874       5359     0     360654     0

I'd say that this cut is good enough to commit to -CURRENT.

Greg
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