On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 12:18, Aeefyu wrote: > With reference to: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-hackers&m=105593188923273&w=2 > > i.e. Broadcom 440x NIC support for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x (as found on > latest Dell's Notebooks - mine is a 8500) > > Would anyone be so kind to enlighten me on the the current status? > Last I heard of developments being made was end of June. > > Anyone please? > > I am willing to be a tester, if one is required.
This was forwarded to me from Greg Lehey. The dcm driver works okay for me, but I had to hack it for some new bus dma changes. I have noticed a few issues of slowness with it when using it in a more "normal" sense (i.e. using it to read mail, ssh to machines, etc.). >> Duncan Barclay has a beta driver for the Broadcomm card. See >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-July/001109.html >> for more details. Also, I've been given a pointer to a Linux page, >> http://cabibbo.physics.wm.edu/~bryan/computer/inspiron5100.html, which >> I haven't read yet. Joe > > Cheers -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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