Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8, 4.9)

[Aeefyu]

Duncan Barclay wrote:
> I've put Pavel's patches at
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bfe-4.8.tar.gz

Built the module if_bfe manually and booted up my 4.9-p2-RELEASE on Dell 
Inspiron 8500.

Feb  7 16:10:09 roxanne /kernel: bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet> 
mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2
Feb  7 16:10:09 roxanne /kernel: bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:db:1a:ce:89
Feb  7 16:10:09 roxanne /kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on bfe0

Feb  7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: bfe0: 
flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
Feb  7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: tunnel inet  -->
Feb  7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: ether 00:0b:db:1a:ce:89
Feb  7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
Feb  7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: status: no carrier
Feb  7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: vlan: 0 parent interface: <none>
Feb  7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: ssid ""
Feb  7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: stationname ""
Feb  7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: channel 0 authmode NONE powersavemode OFF
Feb  7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: wepmode OFF weptxkey 1

Note that it says status "no carrier". I managed to change this 
behaviour by issuing "ifconfig bfe0 media 100BaseTX", which correctly 
identified carrier as "Active", but a crash occurred a few second after 
that. Tried other variations of ifconfig to change mediaoptions with the 
same results. Putting if_bfe_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf resulted in 
more crashes. Sighs ..

Help. Anyone .. ?

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