From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 18:41:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E86F106564A; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:41:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0091E8FC17; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk7 with SMTP id 7so2730994qyk.13 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:41:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:from:date:to:cc :subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=rAxolNoCQc0Mofx1HQczlyG926yRGTkDSjbTNe6WGBg=; b=x35+IR48tYNgTETQWZQaQQIdnujRFS+mHrA6ZIQuuytj0rUbjIj1taj+PMe0d6ApnG lunwj1Hq2h06+qtZSEqCH09CtqYoZJX2M9ohJa+sSxWqBN/8S646xHMMnAMDhZ87Et7e HubIpILQ3ogf3r+ZaCJlwxxMF6kDOmLoMWcz0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:date:to:cc:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=RWAUHr0pMLxxRZL2ZFwaNcARASGTDNkla2I6N2v+LUfSQ0+KOG7uN+Cm2IxPIOta/Q Z4lbcZNbiW1sfhHjarj2V9xwuFTGlkejyPjY/Z7D8ifXu6HfiRNjk22Fo+uiokFwGH6H yao+CG6vRWhlmXQ+OMTSOLz/GY3F3tBPjkfV8= Received: by 10.229.184.198 with SMTP id cl6mr8092063qcb.240.1288118500049; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:41:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pyunyh@gmail.com ([174.35.1.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t35sm7643358qco.42.2010.10.26.11.41.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pyunyh@gmail.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:40:02 -0700 From: Pyun YongHyeon Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:40:02 -0700 To: Christoph Weber-Fahr Message-ID: <20101026184002.GF5627@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: <4CAD71A8.4080602@eis.ru> <4CC7102B.5080209@arcor.de> <20101026182121.GD5627@michelle.cdnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20101026182121.GD5627@michelle.cdnetworks.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, David Christensen Subject: Re: driver for broadcom 57711E X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: pyunyh@gmail.com List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:41:41 -0000 On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:21:21AM -0700, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 07:30:19PM +0200, Christoph Weber-Fahr wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On 07.10.2010 09:07, Дмитрий Александров wrote: > > > Hi! I really need broadcom 57711E driver for my FreeBSD 8.0 i386. > > > Does anybody have this driver already? > > > > > > P.S. Also wanted David Christensen who had previously tried to write a driver. > > > > LOL. Welcome to the club :-) > > > > ( Though I'm afraid David, or Broadcomm, respectively, are incommunicado > > on this particular issue. ) > > > > Let us know if you hear something different. > > > > Actually David is very responsive but I think he is somewhat busy > for other work. For example, I had been working with David to > support next generation Broadcom controller that would be widely > available in next year. > Personally I haven't have chance to try bnx(4) which was written > by David to support BCM57710/57711/57711E controllers so I don't > know how well it works. As David said long time ago, one of issue > was testing wide variety of PHYs used in controller such that it > made hard to release the driver. > David, would you clarify current status of bnx(4)? Actually the driver name was bxe(4).