Problems with BCE network adapter (Dell PE2950)

[Tom Judge]

David Christensen wrote:
>> Sorry for the top post, please try following patch:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~sephe/if_bce.c.diff
>>
>> This is probably the cause; I noticed it when bce(4) was 
>> ported to DragonFly.
>>
> 
> Thanks Sephe, I think you're on to something.  I have some
> debug code in the driver to simulate mbuf allocation
> failures and when I enable that I start receiving the same
> error messages Tom reported (along with various kernel
> panics), but when I include your change the system seems
> to keep humming along.  
> 
> I'll certainly add your code into an update shortly.
> 
> Dave
> 

I'm not going to have a chance to test this patch until next week but I 
will let you know what the results are.

Tom