Re: bcm4400 driver and fedora kernel 2.6??

From: John-Paul Stewart (jpstewart_at_binaryfoundry.ca)
Date: 04/13/04


Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:37:39 -0400

Michael Knight wrote:
>
> Upon bootup, the b44 driver is loaded. So evidently that is running
> correctly. However, I get the following message in /var/log/messages:
>
> b44 eth0: BUG! Unable to clear bit 8000000 in register 428.

Hmm...let's hope that's not a hardware bug. I don't have any hands-on
experience with the BCM4400 NICs, but I do know that their early BCM5700
NICs (the GigE ones) were buggy at the hardware level.