freebsd stable - Feb 2004 - Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8, 4.9)

In Reference To: 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-September/003151.html 

the above specifies a patch to include the bfe driver into a 4.8 kernel. How 
do I proceed with this? 

Pardon my ignorance, but I am not familiar with kernel's patches, hence the 
reason I am asking for some guidance or pointers. 

Any help towards this will be greatly appreciated. Been actively trying to 
solve the Broadcom 4401 NIC on my Dell 8500, and the above link seems to be 
the closest I can get to. I cant afford to upgrade to -CURRENT as my 
notebook is almost the mirror to all the production servers I have . 

Responses are much appreciated! Thanks 

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Feisal

From: "Al-Afu" <afu-subscribed-list@aeefyu.net>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 6:44 AM

> In Reference To:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-September/003151.html
>
> the above specifies a patch to include the bfe driver into a 4.8 kernel.
How
> do I proceed with this?
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but I am not familiar with kernel's patches, hence
the
> reason I am asking for some guidance or pointers.
>
> Any help towards this will be greatly appreciated. Been actively trying to
> solve the Broadcom 4401 NIC on my Dell 8500, and the above link seems to
be
> the closest I can get to. I cant afford to upgrade to -CURRENT as my
> notebook is almost the mirror to all the production servers I have .
There are another set of patches that "Pavel" prepared a couple of
weeks
ago. I need to get 4.9 on my laptop and giv e them a whirl and then commit
them. I may be able to this over the weekend. I will put the patches up on a
web site somewhere when I get home from work tonight.

Duncan

I've put Pavel's patches at

http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bfe-4.8.tar.gz

Duncan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al-Afu" <afu-subscribed-list@aeefyu.net>
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Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 6:44 AM
Subject: Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8, 4.9)

> In Reference To:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-September/003151.html
>
> the above specifies a patch to include the bfe driver into a 4.8 kernel.
How
> do I proceed with this?
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but I am not familiar with kernel's patches, hence
the
> reason I am asking for some guidance or pointers.
>
> Any help towards this will be greatly appreciated. Been actively trying to
> solve the Broadcom 4401 NIC on my Dell 8500, and the above link seems to
be
> the closest I can get to. I cant afford to upgrade to -CURRENT as my
> notebook is almost the mirror to all the production servers I have .
>
> Responses are much appreciated! Thanks
>
> -- 
> Feisal
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hi sirs,

On Tuesday, 10 February 2004 at 10:23:43 +0800, Aeefyu
wrote:
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:23:43 +0800
> From: Aeefyu <afu-subscribed-list@aeefyu.net>
> To: pirat <pirat@access.inet.co.th>
> Subject: Re: Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8,
>  4.9)
> 
> pirat wrote:
> >>Duncan Barclay wrote:
> >>>I've put Pavel's patches at
> >>>
> >>>http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bfe-4.8.tar.gz
> >>
> >>Built the module if_bfe manually and booted up my 4.9-p2-RELEASE on
> >>Dell Inspiron 8500.
> >>
> >>Note that it says status "no carrier". I managed to
change this
> >have you connected LAN cable to your computer ?
> 
> Yes. It was saying "no carrier" even then. I had to manually post
a
> "ifconfig bfe0 ... " in order to see it activated
> 
mine was used to be "no carrier" also during the first few power on.
later on, i assigned ip to them via dhcp and the problem gone.
>
>  > i have inspiron 1100.  please tell me how do you put that Makefile
and
> >.c, .h file into source tree.
> 
> What I did are as follows:
> 1. Put the Makefile into /usr/src/sys/modules/bfe/.
> 2. Put if_bfe* into /usr/src/sys/dev/bfe/.
> 3. Go to /usr/src/sys/modules/bfe/ and do a "make all install"
> 4. re-build kernel
> 5. put ifconfig_bfe0="inet x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x" in
/etc/rc.conf
> 
thanks for your answer.
>
> Please inform me of your findings, if thats not too much to ask.
> 
i simply add patches from duncan to /usr/src/sys/dev/bfe, i have to mkdir 
/usr/src/sys/dev/bfe first though, and make && make install

the mess at /usr/src/sys/dev/bfe now are

rak] /usr/src/sys/dev/bfe # ll
total 140
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     12 Feb  8 01:49 @ -> /usr/src/sys
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    240 Jan 23 11:35 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      0 Feb  8 01:49 __miibus_hack_dep.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3835 Feb  8 01:49 bus_if.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1206 Feb  8 01:49 device_if.h
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  37636 Jan 23 15:13 if_bfe.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  15254 Feb  8 01:49 if_bfe.kld
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  19269 Feb  8 01:49 if_bfe.ko
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  15168 Feb  8 01:49 if_bfe.o
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  24106 Sep  9 14:09 if_bfereg.h
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     25 Feb  8 01:49 machine ->
/usr/src/sys/i386/inclu
de
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   4017 Feb  8 01:49 miibus
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    874 Feb  8 01:49 miibus_if.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      0 Feb  8 01:49 opt_bdg.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1870 Feb  8 01:49 pci_if.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    360 Feb  8 01:49 setdef0.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    790 Feb  8 01:49 setdef0.o
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    235 Feb  8 01:49 setdef1.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    762 Feb  8 01:49 setdef1.o
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     28 Feb  8 01:49 setdefs.h
[firak] /usr/src/sys/dev/bfe #


there is no /usr/src/sys/modules/bfe at this moment.

thanks so much for your helps.

-- 
with best regards,
psr

http://www.thai-aec.org
http://www.thai.net/makham

Duncan Barclay wrote:
>>Duncan Barclay wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Poul,
>>>
>>>Did you try the latest one at
>>>
>>>http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb
>>>
>>>This is probably more upto date.
>>>
>>>I've never had watchdog timeouts... and I don't understand
the module clash
>>>you are having.
Tried the bfe-4.8.tgz. Modules compiled flawlessly.
However once the bfe is "active", it will crash my machine silly
(uptime
32s).

Also there's a boot message of pci/bfe already exist and failed to
register if_bfe.ko

Any pointers on these?

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