bce(4) hang on ifconfig

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.

-- 
Stephen

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:49:20 +0100 (BST)
Stephen Borrill <netbsdprecedence.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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().

Please send a PR, so it's not forgotten.

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