Broadcom 4401 driver

[Christoph P. Kukulies]

Did you enable the interface in the BIOS? I noticed that FreeBSD
detects hardware even if disabled in the BIOS, it's just that the interrupts
are not getting through. Just a wild guess.


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Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku (at) physik.rwth-aachen.de

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:59:24PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> 
> 
> +-le 10/10/2003 13:49 +0000, jphurl at comcast.net écrivait :
> | Hi,
> | 
> | I was wondering if anybody had tried the Broadcom 4401 driver on
> | a Dell 2400 Desktop machine? It has a 2.4 Mhz P4, 
> | 
> | If I enable the SMP & APIC_IO options the driver never receives any
> | interrupts. Note that the Broadcom chip is functional in that I can
> | send packets out, bu unfortunately I never receive any interrupts.
> | 
> | If I turn off those options (they are tied together essentially) the 
> | driver works. 
> | 
> | Note that on a Dell 2350, which also has a P4, the driver works as well
> | (with those options).
> | 
> | Turning off the APIC_IO option essentially makes the interrupt scheme look
> | like a traditional 8259A PIC. With APIC_IO enabled, interrupts get
> | delivered from the APIC IO device to the Local APIC when an interrupt
> | occurs.
> | 
> | Any ideas would be most appreciated.
> | 
> | Thanks.
> | 
> | -- Jim
> | 
> | P.S. The driver works great on the 2350. I ftp to/from it all the time
> |      and the performance is great.
> 
> I won't be of any help, I'm using it in a few asus pundit boxes, and
> they're  only celeron 1.8G (but they work great though).
> 
> -- 
> Mathieu Arnold