System freeze when useing bfe (Broadcom BCM440x) driver

[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:23, Genius Freak wrote:
> I just installed 5.2.1 RELEASE from CD on my dell inspiron 1100
>
> I found some guides online and used them to create a custom kernel for
> the laptop,
> it compiled and booted fine however it freezes whenever I use the network
> card. (example: running "pkg_add -r cvsup" causes it to freeze )
>
> I have compiled a second kernel while running the first to see it it
> was just a CPU or resource issue but it went fine so it seems to me to
> be the driver.
>
> I have attached the kernel config file for reference.
>
> Please tell me if there are any tricks to get this working properly.

The bfe driver in 5.2.1 is faulty - if it gets a dud packet it will get into 
an infinite loop.

Fetch rev 1.6 (5.2.1 has 1.4) from here ->
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sys/dev/bfe/if_bfe.c?rev=1.6&content-type=text/plain

and put it in /usr/src/sys/dev/bfe then rebuild your kernel, or if you used 
the KLD for bfe do..
cd /usr/src/sys/modules/bfe
make
make install
kldunload if_bfe
kldload if_bfe

Then cvsup to RELENG_5 :)

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