Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

From: Duncan Barclay (dmlb_at_dmlb.org)
Date: 08/27/03

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    To: "James Nobis" <quel@quelrod.net>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:40:25 +0100

    Hello James and Ken,

    Both of you are having real problems with the bcm driver and both of you
    have a Dell 8500.

    This is James' dmesg output, which from memory looks very similar to your
    Ken?

    > bcm0: <Broadcom 10/100 Base-T Ethernet> mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaffffff irq 11
    > at device 0.0 on pci2
    > bcm0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    > panic: bcm0: Strange type for core 0xffffffff

    > I'm running 5.1-current from august 22nd. I can try pulling down the
    > latest 5.1 tommorow if you think this might help. This is the same result
    > as when I tried the driver from over a month ago.

    We think that the problem is something to do with the PCI configuration of
    the machine. The ethernet address being ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff indicates that the
    memory map is not right.

    > Before sending this email I was going to obtain a backtrace. I recompiled
    > with the symbol table and kernel debugger and now the driver appears to
    > work fine. Should it work this way?

    Hmm interesting. Ken can you try this and see if the driver then works?

    Duncan

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