Re: [hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey (grog_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 08/28/03
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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:18:47 +0930 To: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org>
On Tuesday, 26 August 2003 at 20:31:22 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote:
>
> On 26-Aug-2003 dcswest@gmx.net wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Wondering whatever further may have come of this discussion regarding
>> FreeBSD support of the built-in ethernet for the Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook.
>> Running a dual-boot system with MS Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.8 Release since
>> 5.1
>> wouldn't seem to install, but not even sure how to make use of drivers beyond
>> including their device code in the kernel configuration file, which may just
>> be an issue with this current release.
>
> I fixed the RX problem yesterday. Take a look at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/
> and grab the lastest bcm_...tar.gz file. Untar this into /sys
> then
> cd /sys/modules/bcm
> make
> make install
> kldload if_bcm
>
> This driver is for -current only.
OK, I've tried this on my Inspiron 5100, and it works without any
recognizable problems:
$ time scp wantadilla:/dumpa/echunga/0/src.gz /dev/null
src.gz 100% 28GB 10.0MB/s 48:41
real 48m41.751s
user 15m41.577s
sys 4m23.766s
netstat -i shows:
input (bcm0) output
packets errs bytes packets errs bytes colls
7452 0 11280248 5373 0 361578 0
7502 0 11358028 5416 0 364512 0
7435 0 11256590 5366 0 361116 0
7504 0 11361056 5416 0 364464 0
7460 0 11292512 5384 0 362352 0
7500 0 11355000 5412 0 364200 0
7451 0 11279390 5379 0 362022 0
7503 0 11358088 5414 0 364332 0
7417 0 11228874 5359 0 360654 0
I'd say that this cut is good enough to commit to -CURRENT.
Greg
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