--On Monday, April 21, 2008 4:44 AM -0300 Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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