[ Spam - HIGH ] Re: Dell Inspiron 630m

[Baldur Gislason]

More discoveries...
When I recompile the kernel without bfe and load the bfe driver as a module
after boot I can ifconfig the card up without going into an interrupt storm
but the card still doesn't work. I get occasional messages on the console:
bfe0: watchdog timeout -- resetting

Baldur

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 05:13:38PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote:
> On a side note, I tried booting freebsd without acpi and now I see that when
> I configure bfe0 I get an interrupt storm on irq9 (bfe0 and uhci2).
> 
> Baldur
> 
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:24:01PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote:
> > Funny that, I also had this problem on an Inspiron 1000 albeit a bit different there,
> > on the 1000 the system would not lock up when I ifconfigged the interface up without
> > a network cable plugged in but it would lock up once the cable was plugged in.
> > I've ran both NetBSD and Linux on the 1000 without problems.
> > I currently have most things working on the 630m except the fast ethernet and the sound.
> > I haven't tried power saving yet. There's also an MMC/SD slot that isn't supported but that
> > is of low concern to me. The sound quality on these dells isn't great either.
> > The wireless card works and X11 works with xvideo after upgrading to X.org 6.9.0
> > I hope to do some more testing tonight.
> > 
> > Baldur
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:06:26PM +0000, Phillip Neumann wrote:
> > > i got a 630m running,releng_6
> > > 
> > > never saw the problem you are describing.
> > > lan works greate.
> > > 
> > > the only thing is, ACPI doest work. i havnt had the chance to have fun
> > > with DSDT and such things jet.
> > > 
> > > saludos,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > El mié, 29-03-2006 a las 15:40 +0000, Baldur Gislason escribió:
> > > > I'm just curious if anyone has a Dell Inspiron 630m or similiar running FreeBSD.
> > > > I have one running 6.0-RELEASE but compiling -STABLE now.
> > > > I had a problem I've observed before on other inspirons, when I configured the broadcom 4401
> > > > fast ethernet interface up the machine sort of locked up.
> > > > The link light on the ethernet port goes out and the machine is locked up to the point
> > > > that I can switch virtual consoles and I can type in characters on the console where
> > > > I ran ifconfig or dhclient. Other than that I don't seem to be able to do anything
> > > > but hold the power button for 4 seconds to power off.
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > > 
> > > > Baldur
> > > > 
> > > > 
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