bfe — Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet Device Driver

       The bfe device driver was written by Stuart Walsh and Duncan Barclay.  This manual page  was  written  by
       Stuart Walsh.

Debian                                            July 16, 2005                                           BFE(4)

       The bfe driver provides support for Broadcom BCM4401 based Fast Ethernet adapters.

       The bfe driver supports the following media types:

       autoselect   Enable autoselection of the media type and options.

       10baseT/UTP  Set 10Mbps operation.

       100baseTX    Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.

       The bfe driver supports the following media options:

       full-duplex  Set full duplex operation.

       For further information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

bfe%d:couldn'tmapmemory  A fatal initialization error has occurred.

       bfe%d:couldn'tmapinterrupt  A fatal initialization error has occurred.

       bfe%d:failedtoallocateDMAresources  There are not enough mbufs available for allocation.

       bfe%d:watchdogtimeout--resetting  The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a
       problem with the network connection (cable).

       The bfe device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.1.

       bfe — Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet Device Driver

altq(4), arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8)

       To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

             devicemiibusdevicebfe

       Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

             if_bfe_load="YES"