Re: Broadcom 4401 driver

i noticed it gets watchdog timeouts if you set plug and play to yes in your
bios
but works good otherwise.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 6:49 AM
Subject: Broadcom 4401 driver


> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anybody had tried the Broadcom 4401 driver on
> a Dell 2400 Desktop machine? It has a 2.4 Mhz P4,
>
> If I enable the SMP & APIC_IO options the driver never receives any
> interrupts. Note that the Broadcom chip is functional in that I can
> send packets out, bu unfortunately I never receive any interrupts.
>
> If I turn off those options (they are tied together essentially) the
> driver works.
>
> Note that on a Dell 2350, which also has a P4, the driver works as well
> (with those options).
>
> Turning off the APIC_IO option essentially makes the interrupt scheme look
> like a traditional 8259A PIC. With APIC_IO enabled, interrupts get
delivered
> from the APIC IO device to the Local APIC when an interrupt occurs.
>
> Any ideas would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Jim
>
> P.S. The driver works great on the 2350. I ftp to/from it all the time
>      and the performance is great.
>
>
>
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