Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500
From: Kenneth D. Merry (ken_at_kdm.org)
Date: 08/28/03
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:03:33 -0600 To: James Nobis <quel@quelrod.net>
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:24:11 -0500, James Nobis wrote:
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> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:27, James Nobis wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Note, on my 5150, I also have a kernel built with -g. I do not have DDB
> > compiled in, but I have never tried a kernel without -g. I may be
> > susceptible to the same "all-ffs" problem.
> >
> > Joe
>
> When i just did a -g, it still would crash when i tried to load the
Ahh. I've had DDB on the whole time, but I've found that I don't get a
crash (i.e. the all ff's problem) if I don't have my fxp card plugged in
when I load the bcm module.
dhclient doesn't cause the system to run out of mbufs, but then again it
hangs. If I ifconfig the interface manually things work fine.
Ken
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