From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jan 25 03:08:37 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D820148FF3F for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2019 03:08:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jjohnstone.nospamfreebsd@tridentusa.com) Received: from mail.tridentusa.com (mail.tridentusa.com [96.225.19.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BBFF94B60 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2019 03:08:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jjohnstone.nospamfreebsd@tridentusa.com) Received: (qmail 28422 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Jan 2019 03:01:44 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mail.tridentusa.com by smtprelay.tridentusa.com (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.100.2/25327. spamassassin: 3.4.2. Clear:RC:1(172.16.0.32):. Processed in 0.027792 secs); 25 Jan 2019 03:01:44 -0000 Received: from mail.tridentusa.com (172.16.0.32) de/crypted with TLSv1: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA [256/256] DN=none by smtprelay.tridentusa.com with ESMTPS; 25 Jan 2019 03:01:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 64482 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2019 22:01:44 -0500 Received: from john-j.tridentusa.com (HELO ?172.16.0.90?) (jjohnstone@tridentusa.com@172.16.0.90) by mail.tridentusa.com with AES128-SHA encrypted SMTP; 24 Jan 2019 22:01:44 -0500 Subject: Re: Support for HP 331T To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <248dcdff-5858-9463-6a19-44d0b1701c69@icerats.de> From: John Johnstone Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 22:01:40 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <248dcdff-5858-9463-6a19-44d0b1701c69@icerats.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 6BBFF94B60 X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of jjohnstone.nospamfreebsd@tridentusa.com designates 96.225.19.3 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=jjohnstone.nospamfreebsd@tridentusa.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.48 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.76)[-0.758,0]; RCVD_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[5]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[tridentusa.com]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.91)[-0.912,0]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.65)[0.652,0]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[mail1.tridentusa.com,mail.tridentusa.com]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[3.19.225.96.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.10.0]; IP_SCORE(-0.15)[asn: 701(-0.67), country: US(-0.08)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:701, ipnet:96.225.0.0/17, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 03:08:37 -0000 On 1/24/2019 8:02 PM, Christian Baer wrote: > Anyways, a friend recommended I get the said 4-port network adapter > because it gets the job done and isn't all that expensive (~35 EUR used > on ebay). The question just is: Will it work with FreeBSD? > > As far as I could find out, these cards use a Broadcom BCM5719 chip - > which I could not find in the FreeBSD hardware list. The bce(4) driver > offers support for several chips that seem to be from the same family at > least, like the BCM5709 and BCM5716. The specific chip however is not > listed. A system here with a BCM5719 is running FreeBSD 12.0. It's supported by the bge driver. On FreeBSD 11.2 or 12.0 you can do a man bge and the BCM5719 is listed. - John J.