bfe hardlocks

[Sean Hamilton]

I've found my 5.2-RELEASE system hardlocking when I put some decent load on
its bfe interface. It'll do 80% load for hours before it freezes, but if I
do a ping -f it locks up within seconds. I had no problems using this
interface with the Windows driver provided by Broadcom.

bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xeb800000-0xeb801fff irq 12 at
device 9.0 on pci0
bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:18:ab:3b:b5


bfe0 at pci0:9:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x80a81043 chip=0x440114e4 rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device   = 'BCM440x 10/100 Integrated Ethernet Controller'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet

bfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
        ether 00:e0:18:ab:3b:b5
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active


-- 
Sean Hamilton <sh at bel.bc.ca>