From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 16:32:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C88D51065672 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from smtp3.utdallas.edu (smtp3.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B104A8FC30 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [10.40.1.37] (unknown [10.40.1.37]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp3.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9624B65502; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:32:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:32:52 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: Gonzalo Nemmi , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <828E7A9A643168E023D139C2@[10.40.1.37]> In-Reply-To: <200804210444.16836.gnemmi@gmail.com> References: <200804210444.16836.gnemmi@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Re: Question regarding Broadcom BCM5906M support under FreeBSD7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:32:58 -0000 --On Monday, April 21, 2008 4:44 AM -0300 Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > 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 > Looking at the header file in HEAD, the highest number card supported is the 5787. It doesn't look like there's support for that card yet. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/