Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:29:38 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Boris Georgiev <maav@bastun.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support Message-ID: <20030713142937.A48304@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <000c01c34947$0b02e2b0$020aa8c0@SABBATH>; from maav@bastun.net on Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:59:56PM %2B0300 References: <000c01c34947$0b02e2b0$020aa8c0@SABBATH>
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On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 16:59:56 +0300, Boris Georgiev wrote: > Hello All, > > I've got a Compaq Evo N620c notebook, which comes with a built-in lan network card - Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M. I researched on the hardware support for this NIC in FreeBSD and noticed that there is no hardware support for it either in the STABLE, or in the CURRENT distribution. I found that there is Linux driver for this NIC, which can be downloaded from the 3Com web site on the following address: > > http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux/bcm5700-5.0.5.tar.gz > > The driver comes as a RedHat binary, Linux kernel patch and standalone source. > Can you, please update me if there is an updated if_bge driver, which includes hardware support for this new chip or if someone is porting this driver for FreeBSD and there is a beta version, I can cooperate with testing it. > Please wrap your lines at something less than 80 columns. Bill Paul just posted a message to -current, -net and -mobile about some patches to the bge(4) driver to hopefully support that chip: http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Broadcom/5705 Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org
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