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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
