Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:40:02 -0700 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Christoph Weber-Fahr <cwf-ml@arcor.de> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, David Christensen <davidch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: driver for broadcom 57711E Message-ID: <20101026184002.GF5627@michelle.cdnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <20101026182121.GD5627@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: <4CAD71A8.4080602@eis.ru> <4CC7102B.5080209@arcor.de> <20101026182121.GD5627@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
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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).
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