Hi Sephe, your fix for the bfe network interface does the trick...almost! :-)
I can now access /dev/bfe0 without causing the machine to freeze, but unfortunately, there's no way to communicate over the network; the system displays "bfe0: bfe_encap bus_dmamap_load failed: 36" error messages when the interface is ifconfig'd UP or dhclient is started. Anyway, I believe it's true the bfe driver has some serious problems with machines that have >1GB of RAM -- your fix proves that. And unless you have a fix for the bus_dmamap_load issue described above at hand, I'll further investigate. Thanx so far --j
