System freeze when useing bfe (Broadcom BCM440x) driver

[Genius Freak]

Thanks for your advice. 
The kernel is rebuilding now :)
I was so desperate I even tried the 5.3 beta1 to see if that would
work and it did but it was too much of a beta for me to use, it
crashed in sysinstall twice.
Thanks again, i'll let you know how it goes.

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:27:14 +0930, Daniel O'Connor
<doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
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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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