defect onboard broadcom causing boot hang

[Bjorn Eikeland]

Descided to stick with the easy way, as its not a change needing adding
to the tree and I dont have any other bfe devices..

And surely the kernel says it's found a 4401 card when it boots, but:
bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xeb000000-0xeb001fff at device 
9.0 on pci0
bfe0: Ethernet address: 80:00:80:00:80:00
bfe0: PHY Reset would not complete.
bfe0: MII without any PHY!
device_probe_and_attach: bfe0 attach returned 6

Thinking the chip is beyond "medical" help as even the MAC address is all
funny - ofcourse I could change that with ifconfig bfe0 ether xx:xx, but 
not
still of litte use without the phy :)

So I think I'll ask the hardware list how to avoid probing the thing at 
all.

Thanks for trying though!!
(I've sure learned a bit from it!)

> Bjorn Eikeland wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your reply Jon!
>>
>> I've checked the driver cd and it had the drivers under 
>> Drivers\LAN\4401\
>> and I seem to remeber thats what windows once called it. The 
>> unidentified
>> chip id isnt a supprise, the card worked, and suddenly turned into a
>> unknown device in windows, so it must have changed somehow.
>>
>> So if the chip stil works then adding/changing the device id sounds like
>> a plan. Having casted a underskilled eye at the sources I'm not sure 
>> what
>> file to edit, but is this it?:
>>
>> /usr/src/sys/dev/bfe/if_bfereg.h
>> ln 396: #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM4401   0x4401
>
> No problem, I had to take a look at this previously too.
>
> I think you could change that line all together, or you could possible 
> add a
> new device by editing both if_bfe.c and if_bfereg.h.  Maybe something 
> like:
>
> --- /usr/src/sys/dev/bfe/if_bfe.c       Fri Nov 14 14:00:30 2003
> +++ ./if_bfe.c  Tue Feb  3 10:30:42 2004
> @@ -82,6 +82,8 @@
>  static struct bfe_type bfe_devs[] = {
>         { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM4401,
>                 "Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet" },
> +        { BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM4401_1,
> +                "Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet - A7V8X integrated" },
>                 { 0, 0, NULL }
>  };
>  --- /usr/src/sys/dev/bfe/if_bfereg.h    Tue Sep  9 14:17:22 2003
> +++ ./if_bfereg.h       Tue Feb  3 10:28:09 2004
> @@ -394,6 +394,7 @@
>   #define BCOM_VENDORID           0x14E4
>  #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM4401   0x4401
> +#define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM4401_1 0x8000
>   #define PCI_SETBIT(dev, reg, x, s)  \
>      pci_write_config(dev, reg, (pci_read_config(dev, reg, s) | (x)), s)
>
> I've never done this before, but It would be fun to see if this is all 
> you
> need to do.  Best of luck.
>
> Jon
>
>>
>>> Bjorn Eikeland wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've just changed to using freebsd on my desktop pc, my Asus A7V8X
>>>> motherboad has a onboard Broadcom chip - this just stopped working 
>>>> under
>>>> windows and turned into a unknown device. Asus or vendor's support 
>>>> never
>>>> replied so I just picked up a new fxp card.
>>>
>>>
>>> Depending on the options, this board either has BCM4401 or BCM5702.  
>>> Note "(optional)" written on the box next to Gigabit LAN.  My old Asus 
>>> P4PE had the BCM4401 and I had a lot of trouble with buggy drivers 
>>> (*bfe*).  The gigabit chip (BCM5702) uses bge.  Try adding both to the 
>>> kernel with mii to see if either works.  Also, their might be a more 
>>> detailed part number on a sticker somewhere.
>>>
>>>> pciconf shows this device to be a:
>>>> none0 at pci0:9:0: class=0x008000 card=0x80008000 chip=0x800014e4 
>>>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>>>     vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>>>     class    = old
>>>
>>>
>>> According to pciids.sourceforge.net and www.pcidatabase.com, 
>>> chip=0x800014e4 is unidentified.  vendor 14e4 is Broadcom, but device 
>>> id 8000 is a mystery.  Although, this is close: 
>>> http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?i=14e44401.  Good luck with that.  
>>> You may just need to edit the code and add a device id?
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>
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