Re: Workaround if your broadcom nic "timed out when disabling ethernet mac"

Wow... you are correct... I am having the very same issue. This is EXACTLY what is going on. A gentleman named "Brad" has offered me a diff to check and see if that solves the problem. I am currently CVSing the latest source and am going to attempt to break my cherry by building a boot

Workaround if your broadcom nic "timed out when disabling ethernet mac"

i have EXACTLY the same issue on one of Samsung's notebook. you need to UNPLUG power cord from your PC/notebook BEFORE booting into OpenBSD/NetBSD. see here http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2004/03/25/0005.html Bryan Brake wrote: > This annoyance started when I bought a brand-new Dell I

Workaround if your broadcom nic "timed out when disabling ethernet mac"

This annoyance started when I bought a brand-new Dell Inspiron 9300. It comes with a Broadcom 4401 Ethernet NIC. The NIC appeared to initialize, but when I tried to set the interface to "UP", the following error message occurs: bce0: timed out when disabling ethernet mac bce0: timed out writ