Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2006/04/04 14:01, Tomas Bodzar wrote:
But worst thing is that my Broadcom 440x isn't running.
It's possible that support for your NIC was added between 3.8 and
3.9; you could try booting from the install kernel (bsd.rd) for a
-current snapshot and see if it behaves.
If so, you could wait for 3.9 as it's likely to work there too
(not too long a wait if you've ordered CDs), or run -current
snapshots if you are happy to do so.
If we had a dmesg, that would be nice...
I had the same issue recently with my laptop with
a broadcom 440x NIC. My problem was that I was
dual-booting the laptop, and when I would reboot
windows and boot into OBSD, Windows shuts down and
leaves the NIC in a state where OBSD can't use it.
A patch was issued in February, and I still get
the error messsage when I boot up. A workaround
(for me, anyway) is to issue the commands like this:
# ifconfig bce0 up
(I get the error message: "timed out disabling
ethernet mac")
#ifconfig bce0 up
(no error message)
then issue:
#dhclient bce0 (if you use dhcp)
That works for me. of course, YMMV...
Hope that helps...
Bryan
