bce(4) hang on ifconfig

[Stephen Borrill]

I've been given a laptop to put NetBSD on as part of an ongoing project.
The initial target was 2.1 which I eventually got installed and working (I
needed the PCIBIOS_*_FIXUP options for it to find the bce(4) chipset and
to pullup revision 1.8 of if_bce.c to recognise it). bce0 worked fine.

I've now just installed 4.0_BETA2 (GENERIC_LAPTOP) on the same hardware
and when I try to "ifconfig bce0 inet 192.168.1.71 netmask 255.255.255.0"
the machine hangs. I can't switch terminals, the existing terminal echos
keypresses, but will not respond. If I break to ddb, the hand appears to
be in rn_search().

wpi0 works fine by comparison.

This looks like a regression to me.

[Juan RP]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:49:20 +0100 (BST)

Post by Stephen Borrill
I've been given a laptop to put NetBSD on as part of an ongoing project.
The initial target was 2.1 which I eventually got installed and working
(I needed the PCIBIOS_*_FIXUP options for it to find the bce(4) chipset
and to pullup revision 1.8 of if_bce.c to recognise it). bce0 worked fine.
I've now just installed 4.0_BETA2 (GENERIC_LAPTOP) on the same hardware
and when I try to "ifconfig bce0 inet 192.168.1.71 netmask 255.255.255.0"
the machine hangs. I can't switch terminals, the existing terminal echos
keypresses, but will not respond. If I break to ddb, the hand appears to
be in rn_search().

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