From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 07:44:21 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 5F6F2106566B for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:44:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com (hs-out-0708.google.com [64.233.178.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151388FC1E for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:44:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id m63so922770hsc.11 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:44:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=Zwh1y036+awnlFtf7I+AqQp/Y9q1aMGqqOtywAg4JNg=; b=kcJ9CIQOfdN7l8zR/hymfq7itkFF/FwIyI8IrfBvyl6KmtBGRDE6vOLx0uRqTkWpcDK2XM21v6T80RirT2SwVi4cf1y4IO/LGQy2QiRjzAxsrN6M0/Y0Tn3QNIrpFXXpdH4THr6m/0BEBW8IHS9407z+Bl999xZWbQryyBYXKwQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=HV1iH5R636+wViyTCq+9krkXd0Ydp+BWNR6x/C/H3Hf0Nrw+biz84KSLGoQiWGkbxOd72fbkFoPflbv3rLYczbNMq0f+s0taPVATLnf0kZ5olOf+fokgBAO6FbFFTdkRsDBww2hDFrah9cFLrZ1MdUCdq2LvKZRxSZrg61xCPso= Received: by 10.100.248.9 with SMTP id v9mr11680133anh.86.1208763860392; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ol115-68.fibertel.com.ar ( [24.232.68.115]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm7192859wrh.24.2008.04.21.00.44.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:44:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Gonzalo Nemmi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:44:16 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804210444.16836.gnemmi@gmail.com> Subject: 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 07:44:21 -0000 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