kern/68149: FreeBSD 4.10 installation blocking on ASUS Pundit

[Bernard Dugas]

>Number:         68149
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD 4.10 installation blocking on ASUS Pundit
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun 20 17:10:05 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bernard Dugas
>Release:        4.10 iso images from 6/6/2004
>Organization:
>Environment:
ASUS PUNDIT barebone
http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=Pundit&langs=01
>Description:
1- During the installation, the machine freeze after :
plip0 : <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
---waiting 3 s ----then :
ad0 : read command timeout tag=0 serv=0 resetting
ata0 : resetting devices..
--- and the computer is frozen and don't react at ctrAltdel 

2- if i disabled the DMA on the hard drive, there is no more blocking, but no more DMA which is not ideal for a server :
..
plip0 : <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
ad0 : 117246M Maxtor... at ata0-master WDMA2
ad0 : CD-RW ....        at ata0-slave PIO4
....

3- in the kernel configuration, there is no driver found for the network. It should be a bfe network driver as this is a Broadcom BCM4401. It is noted as present in the 4.10 release notes, but I couldn't see it in the driver list.

>How-To-Repeat:
Too easy...
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
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