Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:44:16 -0300 From: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question regarding Broadcom BCM5906M support under FreeBSD7 Message-ID: <200804210444.16836.gnemmi@gmail.com>
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While investigating about the Vostro 1400 .. I came across a lspci that claims that the Vostro 1400 comes packed with a Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) Ethernet controller ... in case you want to check it out: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=558211 I moved quickly moved to http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html#ETHERNET in order to find out whether FreeBSD7 had support for BCM5906M chipsets but couldn't find it on the list of supported ethernet chipsets (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html#ETHERNET) so I assumed the answer was: no. I moved to the OpenBSD page in order to see if they had a module for it and found out that they actually do for their next release (may 1 2008): http://www.openbsd.org/43.html - The bge(4) driver now supports BCM5906/BCM5906M 10/100 and BCM5755 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4 So i was wondering, is the Broadcom BCM5906M driver already available in FreeBSD 7 (but not documented), or is it on the way of getting imported from Open or anything, or does anybody have any info regarding support for Broadcom BCM5906M based ethernet cards on FreeBSD7? Last thing I knew about that was that there was a patch taken from DragonFly code (Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:19:23 GMT, Number: 118975, Severity: non-critical (????????), State: open ) .. anyone knows anything else about that? It seems it's still not supported :( Any info will be greatly appreciated Thanks in advanced =) Blessings --- Gonzalo Nemmi
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