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.
Feb 7 16:10:09 roxanne /kernel: bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2
Feb 7 16:10:09 roxanne /kernel: bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:db:1a:ce:89
Feb 7 16:10:09 roxanne /kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on bfe0
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: bfe0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: tunnel inet -->
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: ether 00:0b:db:1a:ce:89
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: status: no carrier
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: vlan: 0 parent interface: <none>
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: ssid ""
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: stationname ""
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: channel 0 authmode NONE powersavemode OFF
Feb 7 16:01:55 roxanne /kernel: wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
Note that it says status "no carrier". I managed to change this behaviour by issuing "ifconfig bfe0 media 100BaseTX", which correctly identified carrier as "Active", but a crash occurred a few second after that. Tried other variations of ifconfig to change mediaoptions with the same results. Putting if_bfe_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf resulted in more crashes. Sighs ..
Help. Anyone .. ?
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