Re: Dell Inspiron 630m

Baldur Gislason <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have 1280MB of ram, so that could be an explanation.
Btw, I tried to use the ndis driver and the machine just panicked
because some functions have not been implemented.

Baldur

On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 06:06:48PM -0800, Mikko Tyljrvi wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:14 -0800, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote:
> >>The bfe driver is broken for machines with more than 1GB of RAM.
> >>If that is the case you'll have to use the NDIS driver (or set
> >>hw.physmem to limit memory to 1GB...:-P)
> >
> >Odd.  I'm running -current on an Inspiron 5160 that has a Broadcom
> >BCM4401 and 2GB in it.  No problems so far, at least not with just
> >booting and letting it sit idle.  I've been using wireless exclusively
> >lately so I haven't been exercising the bfe driver, but you seem to
> >imply that the machine would be DOA...
> 
> Not quite. but trying to bring up the bfe0 interface will result in an
> interrupt storm.
> 
>     
>     /Mikko

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