On 26-Aug-2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings; > > Wondering whatever further may have come of this discussion regarding > FreeBSD support of the built-in ethernet for the Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook. > Running a dual-boot system with MS Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.8 Release since > 5.1 > wouldn't seem to install, but not even sure how to make use of drivers beyond > including their device code in the kernel configuration file, which may just > be an issue with this current release.
I fixed the RX problem yesterday. Take a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/ and grab the lastest bcm_...tar.gz file. Untar this into /sys then cd /sys/modules/bcm make make install kldload if_bcm This driver is for -current only. Once I've done a bit more work on it and committed it, I'll back port to -stable. Duncan > Other than that, may also ask if anyone's just managed to get the Motorola > SB4200 Cable Modem to work through the USB port instead. > > Thank you, > > > [freebsd.hackers] > > Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Meman) > Newsgroups: freebsd.hackers > Organization: TAC News Gateway > Date: Jun 18 2003 02:52:22 > References: 1 > > David Gilbert wrote: >> Duncan> I am in the process of rewriting this driver for FreeBSD. It >> Duncan> can transmit, but RX is not yet going properly. As this is >> Duncan> evening work, it's likely to take at elast another week. >> >> >>>>This is the onboard ethernet on my dell inspiron 8500 laptop and I >> >> I'm pretty sure this is the chipset on my Dell D800 laptop. I would >> be interested in testing the drivers, too. I'm running 5.1-RELEASE. >> >> Dave. > > This ethernet is onboard on some Asus A7V8X mother boards (VIA KT400 > chipset). I'm running the linux/windows drivers from Broadcom site > without problems. > > If you need more ppl testing the driver I'd be glad to help. I'm running > 4.8-STABLE but could upgrade to 5.1-RELEASE if required. > > Regards, > > -- > Tony Meman > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > -- > COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test > -------------------------------------------------- > 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! > 2. GMX ProMail - Platz 2 und Preis-Qualit�tssieger! > 3. Arcor - 4. web.de - 5. T-Online - 6. freenet.de - 7. daybyday - 8. e-Post > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
