Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

From: James Nobis (quel_at_quelrod.net)
Date: 08/27/03

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    Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:27:34 -0500 (CDT)
To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>

    On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:

    > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote:
    > > 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
    >
    > Yep, the messages I get are identical when I load it as a module.
    >
    > > > 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?
    >
    > I've already got the kernel debugger on. Do you mean changing the module
    > compile somehow so that more symbols are included? (It seems to resolve
    > the function addresses in the module fine.)
    >

    compiling with options DDB and makeoptions DEBUG=-g is what i mean

    > The stack trace from the module load is:
    >
    > panic()
    > bcm_chip_get_core()
    > bcm_chip_reset()
    > bcm_attach()
    > device_probe_and_attach()
    > etc.
    >
    > If I boot a kernel with the bcm driver compiled in, and don't attach to the
    > docking station, it comes up fine until I insert my fxp card in the carbus
    > slot. Then I get the panic in bcm_ring_rx_eof() that I reported last
    > night. FWIW, when I have the driver compiled in, the memory location is
    > identical to location used when the module loads (above), but the ethernet
    > address is properly decoded:
    >
    > bcm0: <Broadcom 10/100 Base-T Ethernet> mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2
    > bcm0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:db:94:bf:42
    > miibus0: <MII bus> on bcm0
    >
    > If I boot a kernel with the bcm driver compiled in, and don't attach to the
    > docking station, and don't insert my fxp card, I get slightly further. I
    > tried running dhclient, and got:
    >
    > All mbufs or mbuf clusters exhausted, please see tuning(7).
    > bcm0: initialization failed: no memory for rx buffers
    >
    > Then I tried just manually ifconfiging the interface, and it works!
    >
    > Here's what netstat -m says:
    >
    > {erebor:/usr/home/ken:1:0} netstat -nm
    > mbuf usage:
    > GEN cache: 0/0 (in use/in pool)
    > CPU #0 cache: 576/608 (in use/in pool)
    > Total: 576/608 (in use/in pool)
    > Mbuf cache high watermark: 512
    > Maximum possible: 34304
    > Allocated mbuf types:
    > 576 mbufs allocated to data
    > 1% of mbuf map consumed
    > mbuf cluster usage:
    > GEN cache: 0/0 (in use/in pool)
    > CPU #0 cache: 575/584 (in use/in pool)
    > Total: 575/584 (in use/in pool)
    > Cluster cache high watermark: 128
    > Maximum possible: 17152
    > 3% of cluster map consumed
    > 1320 KBytes of wired memory reserved (98% in use)
    > 1 requests for memory denied
    > 0 requests for memory delayed
    > 0 calls to protocol drain routines
    >
    > Performance, once I manually assigned an address seems okay; I was able to
    > ftp a file over from another machine at a little over 11MB/sec.
    >
    > If I insert the fxp card after the bcm driver is configured, the cardbus
    > initialization fails, and then I get the following messages over and over
    > again:
    >
    > "eek j=6, macCurrent 511, con288"
    >
    > At that point I can 't even break into the debugger.
    >
    > That's all the time I have for tinkering with it this morning...
    >
    > Looks like things are working somewhat better, but there is still some
    > weird stuff going on...
    >
    > Ken
    > --
    > Kenneth Merry
    > ken@kdm.org
    >
    I don't have a docking station. The built in ethernet is which uses the
    bcm driver. I only have used it as a module and have not tried otherwise.

    -James
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