Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:17:20 +0300 From: "Boris Georgiev" <maav@cablebg.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support Message-ID: <001701c34a4d$4f979fe0$020aa8c0@SABBATH> References: <000c01c34947$0b02e2b0$020aa8c0@SABBATH> <20030713142937.A48304@panzer.kdm.org>
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Kenneth, As I already posted William, I have bad news - it doesn't work for me. I rebuilt kernel yesterday with the patched sources and the only thing that happened is that the kernel recognised the LAN card and after that it tried to upload the firmware on the NIC chip, but unsuccessfully. It gave me out an timeout message and didn't load the driver at all. I am sorry that at this time I cannot send the exact message from the kernel, but the notbook is at my office, so I will post it tomorrow if the output will help for finding out what the problem is. Best regards, Boris Georgiev ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: "Boris Georgiev" <maav@bastun.net> Cc: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; <wpaul@windriver.com> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 11:29 PM Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support > On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 16:59:56 +0300, Boris Georgiev wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I've got a Compaq Evo N620c notebook, which comes with a built-in lan network card - Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M. I researched on the hardware support for this NIC in FreeBSD and noticed that there is no hardware support for it either in the STABLE, or in the CURRENT distribution. I found that there is Linux driver for this NIC, which can be downloaded from the 3Com web site on the following address: > > > > http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux/bcm5700-5.0.5.tar.gz > > > > The driver comes as a RedHat binary, Linux kernel patch and standalone source. > > Can you, please update me if there is an updated if_bge driver, which includes hardware support for this new chip or if someone is porting this driver for FreeBSD and there is a beta version, I can cooperate with testing it. > > > > Please wrap your lines at something less than 80 columns. > > Bill Paul just posted a message to -current, -net and -mobile about some > patches to the bge(4) driver to hopefully support that chip: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Broadcom/5705 > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@kdm.org > >
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