Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:32:52 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question regarding Broadcom BCM5906M support under FreeBSD7 Message-ID: <828E7A9A643168E023D139C2@[10.40.1.37]> In-Reply-To: <200804210444.16836.gnemmi@gmail.com> References: <200804210444.16836.gnemmi@gmail.com>
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--On Monday, April 21, 2008 4:44 AM -0300 Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> 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. <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h?rev=1.73.2.1;content-type=text%2Fplain>; Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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