I ordered a new Dell SC440 , with the pentium D and the infamous broadcom bcm5754 (or is it 5787?) . I started off with OpenBSD 4.0 release, then noticed a kernel panic on reboot. This was a consistent repeatable problem, and after googling I noticed other people having the same problem and some patches specific to this card in current. I am now on current (as of January 31) and and I receive no kernel panics on reboot. If I insert a live cable into the card, it ifconfig bge0 will show that it detects a connection and sets the appropriate media type. However, this card will not actually work. I cannot receive an ip address by calling dhclient bge0 , nor can I manually assign it an IP address and ping it from another machine. I have tried manually setting media options, all manners of things and no dice. I installed a linksys lne100tx card using the dc driver just to test and it works as expected. Attached is copy of dmesg output.
Thanks, Nathan Johnson [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of dmesg.out]
