On Tuesday, 26 August 2003 at 20:31:22 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > On 26-Aug-2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Wondering whatever further may have come of this discussion regarding >> FreeBSD support of the built-in ethernet for the Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook. >> Running a dual-boot system with MS Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.8 Release since >> 5.1 >> wouldn't seem to install, but not even sure how to make use of drivers beyond >> including their device code in the kernel configuration file, which may just >> be an issue with this current release. > > I fixed the RX problem yesterday. Take a look at > http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/ > and grab the lastest bcm_...tar.gz file. Untar this into /sys > then > cd /sys/modules/bcm > make > make install > kldload if_bcm > > This driver is for -current only.
OK, I've tried this on my Inspiron 5100, and it works without any recognizable problems: $ time scp wantadilla:/dumpa/echunga/0/src.gz /dev/null src.gz 100% 28GB 10.0MB/s 48:41 real 48m41.751s user 15m41.577s sys 4m23.766s netstat -i shows: input (bcm0) output packets errs bytes packets errs bytes colls 7452 0 11280248 5373 0 361578 0 7502 0 11358028 5416 0 364512 0 7435 0 11256590 5366 0 361116 0 7504 0 11361056 5416 0 364464 0 7460 0 11292512 5384 0 362352 0 7500 0 11355000 5412 0 364200 0 7451 0 11279390 5379 0 362022 0 7503 0 11358088 5414 0 364332 0 7417 0 11228874 5359 0 360654 0 I'd say that this cut is good enough to commit to -CURRENT. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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