From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 13:29:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF4637B401; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:29:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A6C43FAF; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:29:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: from panzer.kdm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panzer.kdm.org (8.12.9/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h6DKTdYU048328; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:29:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.12.9/8.12.5/Submit) id h6DKTcKZ048327; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:29:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:29:38 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Boris Georgiev Message-ID: <20030713142937.A48304@panzer.kdm.org> References: <000c01c34947$0b02e2b0$020aa8c0@SABBATH> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <000c01c34947$0b02e2b0$020aa8c0@SABBATH>; from maav@bastun.net on Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:59:56PM +0300 cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: wpaul@windriver.com cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:29:47 -0000 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